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I think we’re on the same page, but I’d argue that a race is defined by how it’s used, if people decide to lump Muslims together into one category and generaliz
by cle 6y ago
I think we’re on the same page, but I’d argue that a race is defined by how it’s used, if people decide to lump Muslims together into one category and generalize based on that, like is common in the West, then I’d say it’s probably a race.
(I don’t find the distinction to be very important outside of how it’s misused.)
- fastball 6y agoWhat? An ideology is definitely not a race. Racism is bad because you are judging people based on intrinsic characteristics they cannot change. Being Muslim is... definitely not that.
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- Mediterraneo10 6y agoThe term "racism" has been used to describe prejudices against religious groups (not just what you or I would consider "intrinsic characteristics") for decades now: see the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
- fastball 6y agoFairly certain it's usually ethnic groups, not wider religious groups. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of the OED on hand. That being said, luckily this still isn't racist, because there is no prejudice here. My problems with Islam are entirely rational.
- bgilroy26 6y agoAny sufficiently large group activity can become analogous to the family Sharing a government of a country, a university president, an artistic director of a theatre, a religious leader or council of elders, a chief executive officer, the heads of a political party or mvmt, author of a media IP with a fandom, leader of a reinterpretation of an artistic work that has its own following All of these things create little societies that are smaller than all of humanity. These all are modeled off of family dynamics and to minister over them requires the community toown their own language the languages which leads naturally to the Tower of Babel problem. The Tower of Babel problem which is that translation of language/dialect/accent/jargon from one group to another is cognitively taxing and anticipation of that work makes us angry/despairing on an emotional level If everyone understood that these groups were different expressions of the same format we could all work together and the laws could be much simpler in one respect and more complicated in others (eg banning discrimination on the basis of race/creed/ethnicity/nation of origin/gender/age could remove the inexhaustible list of possibal tribal categories but they'd need to add some kind of Code of Conduct like a programming language has to handle their conferences and email groups)