I care about this country’s liberal traditions. Which is why I don’t want bigots in charge. (View Post)

I kinda think it shouldn’t take a genocide for us to stop being bigoted against a group. Why might we need the government to take some sort of action around Islamophobia? Well, look at this thread an… (View Post)

Phobia has a clinical definition, but neither homophobia or Islamophobia are clinical diagnoses. They ain’t in the DSM. We’ve ended up with words of a confusing etymology to mean bigotry against part… (View Post)

That’s just you getting hung up on etymology. “Islamophobia” has the root -phobia in it, but like homophobia, it’s not a real phobia. It’s about bigotry towards a group. Against Jews, we call it anti… (View Post)

My Dad moved to the US. He worked on abortion policy. His friends, who actually did abortions, had been shot at by Christians. A member of our local congregation survived the 1982 Hyde Park bombing b… (View Post)