The other examples you've brought up is on point. I'm not sure how this one here about Islam is not a race a indication that someone is racist. I'm not following you with the example either.
I had guys at work tell me "Islam is not a religion". Some right wingers will say it's a form of governance (because "Islamic Law" exists), so it is not Constitutionaly protected.
bigots like to use it as a shoddy justification for why being bigoted towards muslims is okay
This is a big one for diet racism. The same person would probably not say a “white guy” unless it was relevant to the story. They would just be “a guy.”A lot of people do this without even realizing it.
This makes sense in a non-sensical way lol.
I read the content of the wikipage, and I'm not sure how this helps me understand your point.Murder of Balbir Singh Sodhi - Wikipedia
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ok can you explain if "islam isn't a race" then why was a sikh man attacked after 9/11 in retribution?
I can understand the misdirected intentions from one brown man to another due to ignorance and bigotry. I'm still not catching how does one say "Islam is not a race" to excuse themselves of doing racist shit. The other person I quoted sort of makes sense in a stupid and weird way though.
Now you're just being pedantic on purpose. Sure you can call it ignorance and bigotry, I call it racism.
"I miss the good old days when you could make jokes about people and they would laugh at it instead of being offended!"
I'm honestly not trying to split hairs here. I just don't see how the utterance of that phrase allows one that claim they are not racist is all.
Dude you just called the cold blooded murder of a guy "misdirected intentions", like I can't even believe I'm having this conversation tbh.
That depends some people tell a visual story sure its not an important detail but some people do say descriptive things about others to set the story. And their appearance is an easy way to do that not saying everyone does but it is a thing.
Okay, I have a feeling you're getting out of my posts way more than I intended to communicate. I used the word intentions as a general idea (intend to help, intend to speak, intend to lie, and in the case of the wikipage, intend to hurt/harm/kill).
So I’m going to assume that you’ve never seen an actual racist use the reasoning of “islam isn’t a race” to say horrible things about brown immigrants before. But still you can’t see how that might be a convenient excuse for them to use in response to them being called out for their bigotry? I just find it hard to believe that someone can’t put 2 + 2 together, man it’s no wonder islamophobia is the most mainstream/accepted form of racism.
Hey fuck you, I'm a POC who has experience physical assault and endless stererotypes because of the color of my skin. So again, fuck you.
This vague ass description that could describe billions of people on this planet that doesn't mean anything.
