{"id":290,"date":"2009-04-01T09:38:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T09:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2009\/04\/definitions-racism-islamophobi.html"},"modified":"2009-04-01T09:38:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T09:38:51","slug":"definitions-racism-islamophobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2009\/04\/definitions-racism-islamophobi.html","title":{"rendered":"definitions: racism, islamophobia, anti-semitism, and sexism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Razib <a href=\"http:\/\/talkislam.info\/2009\/03\/29\/definitions-in-your-own-words-what-is\">poses an interesting question at Talk Islam<\/a> asking for people&#8217;s definitions of these four terms. Here are mine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>racism <\/b>&#8211; <i>bias<\/i> pr prejudice towards an ethnic group.<b><br \/><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>anti-semitism<\/b> &#8211; <i>hatred<\/i> towards Jews (or culturally affiliated persons therof)<b><br \/><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>islamophobia<\/b> &#8211; <i>fear<\/i> of muslims and islam<b><br \/><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>sexism<\/b> &#8211; indulgence in gender <i>stereotypes<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that all four are different things and not directly analogous to each other (as I have emphasized using italics above). It&#8217;s possible to hate muslims, for example,<br \/>\nbut that&#8217;s a derivative emotion from fear. Only Jews seem to actually be hated<br \/>\nwithout fear. sexism can lead to misogyny (hatred of women) but there&#8217;s<br \/>\na continuum. and racism can be quite mild, but should still be called for<br \/>\nwhat it is. I think racism and sexism are the most analogous, but<br \/>\nracism takes on gradations in a continuum that sexism cannot because<br \/>\nthe question of who is or who is not a member of race X or Y is not as<br \/>\nclear-cut as gender (a binary value).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some vigorous follow-up discussion at TI <a href=\"http:\/\/talkislam.info\/2009\/03\/30\/follow-up-on-my-post-about-about-isms\/\">here<\/a> that&#8217;s also worth a look (as is Razib&#8217;s concluding <a href=\"http:\/\/talkislam.info\/2009\/03\/31\/my-previous-post-on-multiculturalism-has\/\">comment<\/a>). I think that clear definitions are a prerequisite for discussion on these volatile topics. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Razib poses an interesting question at Talk Islam asking for people&#8217;s definitions of these four terms. Here are mine: racism &#8211; bias pr prejudice towards an ethnic group. anti-semitism &#8211; hatred towards Jews (or culturally affiliated persons therof) islamophobia &#8211; fear of muslims and islam sexism &#8211; indulgence in gender stereotypes It should&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[143,100,26,126,34],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-neverending-story","tag-anti-semitism","tag-islamophobia","tag-politics","tag-racism","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>definitions: racism, islamophobia, anti-semitism, and sexism - City of Brass<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"definitions: racism, islamophobia, anti-semitism, and sexism - City of Brass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My friend Razib poses an interesting question at Talk Islam asking for people&#8217;s definitions of these four terms. 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