Oh is that what the teacher is doing here?
Congratulations maybe fight that fight in a thread not about blatant islamaphobia
No fight here. I didn't insinuate that either. The teacher did something horrible and the school is worse for allowing it and trying to kick the kids out. It's pure racism, not a phobia of a religion.
True, it is often misapplied, but here we have a textbook example of actual islamophobia, so....
Yeah, I see what you're saying. I just don't like the term as much as I used to... I exaggerated when I said I always hated it.
The teacher certainly said some racist shit and was prejudiced and should be in jail, but I don't think those were the actions of a phobia. These actions were a result of hate and ignorance. And yeah, I know a lot of places will include actions like what's in the OP in their definition of Islamophobia, but I think it's a sloppy term that should be replaced with something else.
If the incident in the OP is Islamophobia, then why do people label my criticisms of some ideas in Islam as Islamophobic (IRL, not here)? This happened last week and I had to sit there and explain that what I was saying isn't the same as real, pure hatred and racism towards Muslims. It's a term that's easily misconstrued and thrown around too loosely or misapplied like you said.
Maybe I shouldn't have posted my thought earlier but it's been bothering me lately.
