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Old 01-09-2022, 06:31 PM   #20 (permalink)
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you would hardly use "phobia" to describe rational fears

we don't use it to describe fears at all in the case of "homophobia" or "Islamaphobia"
Yeah i think we just use phobia cause it sounds good... Actual phobias aren't so morally loaded i don't think

Although i do think the implication is that these forms of bigotry are tied up in irrational in group/out group type fears, especially with islamaphobia.
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