So, bigots, if Islam is so horrible, why aren't you walking or biking to work?

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185. It's very much a majority vs. minority, or "privilege" (as people like to refer to it here) issue

One of the things that drives me nuts about all of the threads talking about whether or not to use the terminology of "privilege" to describe these things is that so much effort is wasted on which terms to use, when a thread like this demonstrates how the basic issues aren't understood by many here (not singling you out, talking about this thread overall and more generally a tendency to ignore manifestations of an issue but talk endlessly about which terms to use).

The fundamental issue is this - different groups have different power dynamics (and of course, these are situational). It's not OK for a white person to tell a joke about black people, and then defend it with "hey, I tell jokes about all races." Likewise, it's not OK for a non-Muslim to say Islam is horrible, and then say, "hey, I hate all Abrahamic religions." I understand the person doing so might think that they're just treating both sides equally, but the problem is that both sides are not equal. There are entrenched power dynamics involved (racism, anti-Muslim sentiments) that can't be ignored and have to be taken into consideration.