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Islam is a religion.  And being Muslim is a 'race' in some areas.  Because, and you might not know this, race isn't a real, tangible thing.  It's purely a social construction and the determinations of what constitutes race and demarcative characteristics within any proposed race is relative and flexible   Labeling his comment as racist probably would be greeted with disapproval by the 19th century German anthropologists who, I guess, you give intellectual allegiance to, but for modern uses it's fine.  Bigot also works.   

 

Okay then, my race is Catholic.  Stop being a racist.

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Okay then, my race is Catholic.  Stop being a racist.

 

Did I ever say that criticizing Islam is racist? 

 

 

If I started a campaign against Catholics on the grounds that they are subversive creatures or disposed to violence then I think you'd be fine labeling my comments racist.  It doesn't fit neatly into what we define as race in the US but, like I said, that conceptualization is pretty arbitrary.  

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Did I ever say that criticizing Islam is racist? 

 

 

If I started a campaign against Catholics on the grounds that they are subversive creatures or disposed to violence then I think you'd be fine labeling my comments racist. 

 


No. No, he would be stupid.

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The atheist race lacks a sense of humor.

 

 

False.  I laugh at things you say all the time.  

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