I’ll accept this criticism if you came down the same way on people who called the Muslim ban “racist”.
I actually agree with your position deep down. Racism and bigotry are not exactly the same thing. But I kind of treat it like people who use “literally” to mean “figuratively”. It’s annoying but I understand what they mean. Using the two terms interchangeably is just a thing people do.
The whole thing is stupid for reasons way beyond calling it racist when they really mean bigoted.
If you’re satisfied with your current healthcare situation and future outlook, I’m genuinely happy for you. That makes two of us.
We’re not really talking about satisfaction with health care. That’s a different question. I’m sure there is a Tibetan monk out there who has access to worse health care than either of us, who is far more satisfied with what he has got than we are.
I’m on the record with the unpopular opinion that being anti-Islamic is rational and not racist. Islam is not a race. I’m anti-Islamic for the same general reasons I’m anti-catholic or anti-Mormon.
Language use does matter. It confuses the discussion over actual racism when these other things are purposely mislabeled.
In that case, carry on as far as I’m concerned. Just realize you’re going to get some pushback for being a language precision nit.
I’m not sure what point you’re making. I’m not denying bigotry exists. It’s just not racism.
It’s only racism if it comes from the Raciste region of France
I’m not so sure. I think at least some part of anti-Italian sentiment comes from a refusal to acknowledge them as truly white. Hitler certainly saw Sicilians and those from Southern Italy as hybridized untermensch (maybe a bit stong), certainly not of pure Aryan stock. I’d be surprised if similar sentiments didn’t exist in some parts of American society.
Trying so hard to recreate the couch fucking magic
If they aren’t a race, explain this:
I think calling the Muslim ban racist is fine because in general, the overwhelming percentage of Muslims are not white and in particular the countries the ban applied to were African or Middle Eastern.
How many Muslims are you friends or close work colleagues with?
Not having a go. Just curious as to degree of exposure.
Makes as much sense as any other racism…
They are so completely obtuse. The couch thing caught on because although its odd its pretty lighthearted. It’s american pie level odd. If my mate told me he’d fucked a couch when he was young I’d laugh but ultimately I’d be like I get it I was a super horny teen once too.
Trying to copy that idea and coming up with drinking horse semen says way way more about you than it does about the person you are trying to slander.
I actually think the couch thing caught on because of the asymmetry between US right and left wingers with respect to disinformation. It was a once in 8 years time where the left wing just leaned into the misinformation and had fun with it. It doesn’t work when the right does it because misinformation is their thing 24/7.
Like how do you even differentiate between the “serious” critiques like Kamala slept her way to the top, she just became black, stolen valor, etc and the horse semen thing?
Practising. Zero. Non-practicing two. I’ve also read the entire Qur’an and the Sunnah and several histories and analysis of the culture and faith.
nobody’s perfect 
Yea they existed. Whether you want to define Italian as a race or not, there was anti-Italian bigotry (and violence by groups like the KKK, tied to anti-Catholicism) that included physical differentiation from American WASPs. Greasy, swarthy, etc.
Some anti-Italian sentiment was also tied to anti-labor sentiment fwiw