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Comment by tokai

4 days ago

You called him racist. Doesn't make a lot of sense. Now I really want to know what you believe it means.

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zamadatix  3 days ago

To hazard a guess: taking "fear of the foreign" as a generic "unfamiliar" rather than the literal "foreign" it's actually associated with.

I.e. perhaps meant something like neophobia.

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