There are no general-purpose slurs that I know of, so xenophobes/misanthropists do use plenty specific hate speech.
Like, an American xenophobe hates all foreigners. But he is going to call a German by a slur against Germans, and maybe mock sauerkraut and make snide remarks about WWII. A Frenchman, he'll use French slurs and insult France. He doesn't just call them "dirty foreigners" and mock their foreign-ness.
You could be right, I'm just curious if it runs deeper than what we see on the surface.
ISIL, for example- hates Jews, Christians, Yezidi, Shias, liberal Sunnis, Mexicans, reporters, women, America, Europe, Israel... so rather than "antisemites" I'd describe them as jingoist/xenophobic/etc
Considerably, sadly most westerners don't understand nor they want too.
Those are about as subtle as the "from the river to the sea" chants you see at anti Israel protests and the nice caricatures of trees and rocks with Arabic text bubbles that lovely children hold up as signs.
Liberals think it's cute, you explain to them what it means they are phased for about 30 seconds and go back to chant.
Like, an American xenophobe hates all foreigners. But he is going to call a German by a slur against Germans, and maybe mock sauerkraut and make snide remarks about WWII. A Frenchman, he'll use French slurs and insult France. He doesn't just call them "dirty foreigners" and mock their foreign-ness.
You could be right, I'm just curious if it runs deeper than what we see on the surface.
ISIL, for example- hates Jews, Christians, Yezidi, Shias, liberal Sunnis, Mexicans, reporters, women, America, Europe, Israel... so rather than "antisemites" I'd describe them as jingoist/xenophobic/etc
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