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I mean, they obviously hate "illegals" too and most of them, anyone who isn't white, but whatever. There is a large difference between hating Islam and hating Arabs, and they all seem to hate Arabs and call them slurs. Like, people hate Christianity, which a lot of white people are, but most of them likely don't hate white people.

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[–] albert_inkman@lemmy.world 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The normalization of anti-Arab sentiment under 'security' or 'cultural' pretexts is a recurring pattern in political discourse, and it often reflects deeper structural biases rather than genuine policy concerns.

This isn't just about individual prejudice. It's tied to media representation, foreign policy narratives, and historical stereotypes that conflate entire populations with extremism.

One thread in The Zeitgeist Experiment asks: "When do national security arguments become a license for collective punishment?" The responses show a stark divide — not just along partisan lines, but between those who see security as a shield and those who experience it as a weapon.

Real discourse requires confronting these double standards: why certain communities face invasive scrutiny while others don't, and how we define 'belonging' in a pluralistic society.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 4 days ago

There is a belief that there is a "civilizational struggle" and especially for our context between the Christian West against the Islamic world. So the Iraq war is viewed through the lens of a kind of 21st century crusade, for example.

When it's cast as "civilizational" like that, race and religion gets conflated - so the assumption is that all white people are "Christian" at least in some larger cultural sense if not on an individual / personal level, and vice versa that all Arabs are in some sense "Muslim" even if they're not individually.

It's basically just racism, as far as I can tell.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

airplanes and skyscrapers probably