A friend of mine used to work for the Arab American Institute. Hard as it is to be a person of Arab descent in post-9/11 America, her life was made much harder by a charming fellow named W. Patrick Syring. Syring, a former Foreign Service officer stationed in the Arab world, would call and e-mail AAI staffers — including my friend — and say things like "the only good Arab is a dead Arab." See, neocons? State Department officials can be just as racist as you.
Anyhow, on Friday, Syming was sentenced to a year in prison. Good.
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I can’t say I’ve worried about the Arabs around here. They’re mostly Lebanese and they don’t play. You could play in traffic if you wanted to end up in hospital quicker, but not by much.
I feel feel sorry for the Seihks. I cleaned up a guy out at our local 7/11 a few years ago because he could not stop making “your mates the terrorists” remarks at some poor old bastard with a turban.
This was after I saw something similar on a train and did nothing.
Now it’s bad copping a sterotype, even worse a racist one. But how fkn bad is it to cop one that’s not even yours ? FFS.
Go and give some Thais some shit about oppressing Tibet while you are at it you retards.
Not to mention pricks who can’t spell your religion.
That is an astounding comment. In the context of punishing one man for his bigotry, it’s really useful to pretend you just put that whole problem to bed. Now, back to that fence.