Many people just accept and absorb what they've heard or seen in cartoons and popular media while growing up, lumping different groups of people together based on oversimplifications and misrepresentations of who they are. The assumptions on which people base their Islamophobia are quite racist, conflating Arab identity (which people think they know by a person's appearance based on racist stereotypes) with Islam. The point is to be able to identify the bigotry for what it is.

If you try to define a form bigotry by the actual reality it's misrepresenting, you'll miss the bigotry itself.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I’m acknowledging that bigotry is based on ignorance. That was my whole point, which you artlessly missed. I’m just not trying to enable that ignorance by playing into it. So, instead of using that as a cudgel against an ally like me who is just trying to clarify a couple of distinct terms, maybe focus your rage on those who would actually do you harm.

Needlessly attacking your friends is a pretty silly way to behave.

[–] LostWon@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

All I did was point out facts and perspectives you seem to have missed. I thought we were having a constructive conversation in good faith, and was giving you the benefit of the doubt. I'm sorry to see that wasn't the case.