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ORIGINAL: Politesub53

The use of the word racism is an interesting topic. While racism and Islamophobia are linguistically different, I see them as having exactly the same attitude towards the groups targeted. For instance I see Antisemitism as racist towards Jewish people, and have used either word to describe the same event.

To me, racism Islamophobia, homophobia, sexism, antisemitism and bigotry are all just modern labels for the same thing. hatred and contempt of something different.

Racists argue the semantics of the word as a defence..... "I`m not racist as they are not a race" for instance.

To put it in the vernacular....Thats bollocks.

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ORIGINAL: Maitreange

I'd rather separate xenophobia and racism, which are closely related but not synonymous. Also, you can be hostile to a religion without feeling hate for the people who practice it. Most of the time antisemits don't care about the jewish religion, they think jewish people are conspirators who steal their money. That was the base of nazi's antisemitism and it is still the base of modern antisemitism.