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"Islamophobia", "homophobia", "transphobia" etc...
The average person is not feeling threatened by these things. In fact he/she feels either indifferent or more realistically, hate or disgust.
So, why put fear in something that is hate and disgust? Because these two latter are way different feelings from the former. And attributing every situation of repulsion to fear is, on behalf of the left wing and the centre right parts of the political spectrum, a very petty dialectic tactic.
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