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  • Eldritch@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Criticizing Islam or it’s followers is not islamophobia. If your critiques of them get you called islamophobic. Then perhaps you should look at your critiques. As they are not likely valid.

    A phobia is an irrational unjustified fear of something. But not a valid critique.

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      1 year ago

      Not just fear. It’s also an aversion to. I’m queer and I’m sick of having people defend homophobes because they’re “not afraid” when they’ve said something horrible about queer people.