• Saryn@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    It would be interesting to test with other groups of people. For example, when happens if all my review says is “I don’t like jews” or “I don’t like Americans/Russians/Chinese people”.

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      Wouldn’t a more comparable test be “I don’t like Christians” or “I don’t like vegans”? If they say Jews it’s often racist, not about their personal beliefs.

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        “Muslims” is often used in a racist way to mean brown people, not just refer to a religious group. “Jews” is used in the same way, to refer to an ethnic group as often as a religion.

        The two are used by racists in almost the exact same way. “Christians” are mainly white, so racists dont often attack them at all, especailly since a large contingent of the racists are christian.

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            You’ve never seen “Jews” used to refer to the ethnic group… in europe?

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              I think they’re talking about referring to Muslims as an ethnic group. Jews does literally mean either the religion or the ethnic group.