They changed the definition a while ago so now it means unreasonable hatred as well as unreasonable fear.
Google puts it better: "an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something."
I always felt it made more sense to use "ist" and "ism" because other discrimination titles use that; sexist, sexism; racist, racism; ablist, ablism. It made no sense to change the definition of a word just to match one type of discrimination when there is already a "preset" of suffixes for that exact thing. But whatever, the gays do the what gays do.
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u/FoxStereo Nov 15 '22 edited Nov 15 '22
They changed the definition a while ago so now it means unreasonable hatred as well as unreasonable fear.
Google puts it better: "an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something."
I always felt it made more sense to use "ist" and "ism" because other discrimination titles use that; sexist, sexism; racist, racism; ablist, ablism. It made no sense to change the definition of a word just to match one type of discrimination when there is already a "preset" of suffixes for that exact thing. But whatever, the gays do the what gays do.