Opponents in political debate often accuse each other of harboring a “phobia.” This allows weak thinkers to avoid the trouble of making a coherent and substantive argument. They can brush aside contrary opinions as being held due to ignorance and fear, thus dismissing the other guy as stupid and bigoted.
The accusation of “homophobia” proved highly effective a generation ago, and it had the merit of containing some truth, for among opponents of gay marriage there were some motivated less by principle than by gut reaction — a primeval squeamishness.
The phobia alleged most often today, Islamophobia, is very different and is mostly a lie. Tellingly, the charge of “Islamophobia” began being hurled promiscuously only after Islamists gave the rest of us good reason to detest them in 2001 with the murders of 3,000 in America, and later of 1,200 in Israel last Oct 7.
For more than two decades, apologists for Islamic extremism have found it convenient to deploy this reflexive cod-psychological rubbish to deflect and defame rational abhorrence. Thus, charges of unthinking prejudice against Muslims suddenly proliferated just when sensible people began to realize in large numbers that something seriously wrong was happening in the Muslim world and was being exported to the rest of us.
well if thats a thing then yes I am
If it walks like a duck…