Yes dammit

[prog]

The election cycle is nearly done, and Friday's On the Media was the first acknowledgment I'd heard in any broadcast venue of the inherent Islamophobia in countering "He's a Muslim!" with "No he isn't!" but then failing to take any steps into "That said, why would that even matter?"

I have some sympathy for the defense, here (it's best not to linger too long in the enemy's frame) but it still grates me a little every time I see it.

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[radtea.livejournal.com]

I can appreciate intellectually what you're saying, but I think I'm just failing to get the prejudice you're fighting. For comparison, here in Canada we have Muslim and Sikh MPs, including fairly recently a Sikh as Minister of Health in the Federal Government, even though Sikh extremists were responsible for the worst domestic terrorist attack in Canada ever, killing over 300 people in the bombing of Air India fight 182, the vast majority of them Canadian citizens.