badgenome said:
superchunk said:
PizzaFaceGamer said:
@superchunk - you must have read a different article.
Hate crimes against jew outstrip hate crimes against muslim 6-1.
So wouldn't America have Israeliphobia more than islamaphonbia?
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Just because one group is larger than the other doesn't mean the acts of phobia on the smaller group are irrelavent. That is a fallacy in logic.
Jews are a larger population and have better political connections allowing more items to come up than Muslims, so its natural for it to be larger.
Additionally, it doesn't take away that post2001 attacks on Muslims are FAR higher than they were before and during times with media created frenzies like this absurd issue with the Mosque they increase again.
You're just minimalizing that which you disagree with.
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There are 6.5 million Jewish Americans and, depending on who you believe, 2-3 million Muslim Americans. Jonah's point is that Jews are far more frequently targeted - and disproportionately so - but the media never really makes much of it. Certainly nothing on the scale of their recent Islamophobiaphobia.
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...and there are attacks on other religions, races, etc every day that don't make the news, so what. Right now its all out in the open on Muslims due to the stupid outcry for the Mosque in NYC, as well as other places in the nation. If this were about Synagogues then Jewish attacks would be being highlighted as well and I'd come into that thread and agree that its wrong on all accounts, not discuss the attacks on blacks, gays, etc.
