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by tinco 1517 days ago
There's no actual racism there though, even if there is a lot of islamophobia. The answer about jews seems to actually be sort of balanced in that it makes no generalising statement about them, actually arguing against that. It does read as if it's just something someone has said at some point, or maybe a paraphrasing of it.

Islamophobia is very popular in the west, and it has been for hundreds of years. I don't think it's very reasonable to expect any agent trained on common discourse to have no islamophobia at all.

It's also not very shocking to hear an opinion that religion is associated with violence, that's been a commonly held opinion for decades at least. It seems overly focused on islam, but that might be due to it being biased to the past two decades where the rise of the internet coincided with the rise of tensions between the west and several islamic organisations.