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Does Ms Warsi Have Difficulty With English?
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phobia = fear, we are not afraid we are wary of their tendencies toward terrorism.
phobia = fear, we are not afraid we are wary of their tendencies toward terrorism.
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Maybe it's time you learned a bit about the English language, TTT. Here's something to get you started: "The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g. acidophobia), and in medicine to describe hypersensitivity to a stimulus, usually sensory (e.g. photophobia). In common usage, they also form words that describe dislike or hatred of a particular thing or subject (e.g. homophobia). The suffix is antonymic to -phil-."
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Have always hated the 'phobia' suffix, because it's not quite right.
By mislabelling bigotry as 'a fear', it makes it sound as if we should have sympathy with those suffering from it.
And that's not right. If someone is agoraphobic you can feel sympathy for them, because their condition is debilitating and primarily affects them.
Someone who is bigoted doesn't need or deserve the sympathy that the phobic suffix suggests.
...because they're jerks.
By mislabelling bigotry as 'a fear', it makes it sound as if we should have sympathy with those suffering from it.
And that's not right. If someone is agoraphobic you can feel sympathy for them, because their condition is debilitating and primarily affects them.
Someone who is bigoted doesn't need or deserve the sympathy that the phobic suffix suggests.
...because they're jerks.
Islamophobia is an term invented by the liberal media used to describe anyone who criticises Islam. At very best it's a lazy term. I am concerned of the evil doctrine contained in the Koran, critical of it's ideology and worried about the seemingly mass complacency of politicians. Am I Islamophobic? I don't know. Do I care? No.
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