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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
The BBC pulled an advert for the Wales England game as people complained it was racist
It was Welsh people struggling to think of any good things to say about the English
Lots of people have no idea what racism is
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Language evolves and being pedantic about exact definitions is just another petty way of shutting an argument down, e.g "I'm not racist, Islam is not a race". It's a strawman. In my actual opinion, to be fair, at this point there should be an equivalent term to "antisemitism" for Muslims, but I don't think certain people would be very comfortable with that. They wouldn't be able to dodge the comment by saying "I'm not a... " any more.
I try on occasion to use xenophobia in place of racism when it comes to anti-cultural statements but I struggle a little because a phobia is an irrational fear, and most of the bile I see being sloshed around has absolutely Jack **** to do with fear of any kind.