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Originally Posted by Damien
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But everyone in a race is not the same, if you make judgements on a race based on the actions of a few members of that race is that not racist itself? After all, if a white man (presuming your white) commits a crime against you then you would not judge that experience as indicative of all white men.
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One thing I do find happening much more nowadays is that people are targeting muslims in the same manner as is deemed unacceptable to target, say black people.
If I went around and said that all black young men are knife weilding drug dealers (based on my personal experiences in south London) then I would rightly be branded some sort of racist and my views wouldn't be acceptable. However I do find more and more people judging the whole Muslim community based on the actions of a relative minority within the community itself. People think they can get away with it because they are not being racist (as a religion is not a race so you can't be being racist - views echoed in this forum aswell). I personal think its the same thing, because most people I know that voice anti Muslim views are directing it towards the asian/brown skinned people whom they believe to be Muslim.