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        For every one Muslim who has a wonderful and positive experience in the USA, I can give you ten who are treated like shit, dehumanized and ridiculed on a daily basis. You cannot paper over Islamophobia with one nice anecdote just like you cannot do the opposite with anti semitism.

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          Yet Sarandon's comment does exactly that with antisemitism. She portrays it as something that may (should?) be measured in relation to Islamophobia, and she characterizes it as "getting a taste." Does that mean antisemitism is less than? It accounts for 60% of US religion-based hate crimes, despite Jews being about 2% of the population. It's been that way for some time.

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            I don't get it, she can't do that, but you can? Nobody here is saying anti semitism is ok, or doesn't exist, nor is she from an honest read.