If hate rhetoric conflates two categories, then the hate is about both categories and no amount of h

If hate rhetoric conflates two categories, then the hate is about both categories and no amount of hairsplitting is going to change that.

Or, it might even really just be about the actually not-bad category.  When someone calls all Arabs terrorists, they don’t really hate terrorists, they’re justifying hating Arabs.  When someone calls all gay people pedophiles, they hate gay people more than pedophiles.  When someone condemns feminists for being socialist lesbians, it’s a pretty good chance that they just hate women, as well as socialists and gay people.  Bigots noticeably don’t care about or even at times glorify white terrorists and straight pedophiles, so it’s pretty easy to tell what they’re actually talking about; and it’s not simply misconceptions, it’s deliberate.  Hairsplitting instead of pointing out hateful attribution is derailing.

–Golbat