Quote: Lazzard @ 3rd September 2024, 11:41 AM'Phobia' is the wrong suffix - always has been.
Homophobia - its first incarnation - was coined way back to describe 'why' people were anti-gay - and was put down to a fear or repulsion of homosexuality - which is what homophobic originally meant.
But meanings change - and I think most of us know what Islamophobic means now.
Even Lee Anderson.
"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'