(January 23, 2015 at 7:13 pm)Cato Wrote: Phobia ranks second on my list of overused and/or misused suffixes; gate being the first. I would also be cautious with the idea since Islamaphobia, homophobia, and the like are deployed as ad hominem arguments meant to shut off debate.
There's such a thing as pre-emptive objections to those words meant to shut off debate, too.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.