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Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by zozbot234 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:35PM (#27908468)
> In this case they were pushing some rather racist discourse. They said in response to an article about Muslims "Scum. Deport them. They hate us. Get rid of them."

That's better described as religious intolerance, not quite the same as racism per se. Not that this makes the attitude any less problematic, far from it. OP is ironically projecting her own attitude onto Muslims by saying that they all hate us for not sharing their religion.

Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by minsc__and__boo on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:44PM (#27908605)
Sure, but keep in mind that islamophobia, xenophobia, and racism are partially overlapping phenomena.
Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by zozbot234 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:05PM (#27908960)
That's a bit hard to square with the fact that so much religiously-motivated hate towards Muslims comes from other self-identified Muslims. If there's some of the overlap you mention, it must be quite limited indeed.
Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by minsc__and__boo on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:15PM (#27909110)
Well in reference to the comment in the article about deporting muslims, the islamophobia is overlapping with xenophobia at the very least.
Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by TOMDM on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:10PM (#27909032)
I'd bet there's a huge overlap amongst right wing americans. Probably the same for many Western right wing populations.

If we're going to call that population limited, then yeah I'd agree

Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by TOMDM on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:40PM (#27908544)
Yeah agreed.
Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by dukeofdoom on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:41PM (#27909453)
In all likely hood, she was talking about a subset of Muslims. Possibly the ones with terrorist tendencies. Seems like the full context needs to be examined to cast judgment.
Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by therouwboat on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:24PM (#27910059)
Article is about muslims praying/protesting in front of Trump tower in New York and as far as I know there has not been terrorist attack on Trump tower.
Re:A Twitter thread sparked a lawsuit against Nieman Lab’s f... by dukeofdoom on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:33PM (#27911766)
I suppose its less defensible for sure. Still her comment seems aimed at even a smaller subset of Muslims, actually a tiny subset of those that were there on that day. Definitely less then what is claimed in a lot of posts here, that it was aimed at all Muslims.

Why were Muslims protesting in front of Trump Tower? Seems like Trump was like the first President in decades not to Bomb the shit out of one of their countries of origin. Trump had one the lowest Muslim body counts since last century.

Perhaps her comment was all about perceived ingratitude.

I've come across this before, were Americans think other countries should be grateful that they don't get bombed.