Offending Black people: Racist
Offending women: Sexist
Offending gays: Homophobic
Offending Jews: Anti-Semitic
Offending (Arabs &) Muslims: Freedom of speech
Well, it's quite true, lately there's been a lot of media attention to the middle east, Arabs, Muslims, suicide bombers and etc, and because of this attention, it's been spread around negatively. To be honest, I say so what?
It's happened to every race, creed, religion, sexuality so far, why not the Muslims and Arabs?
The Jews were originally picked on from the start, and it continued on to the 12th century where from the entirety of France by Louis IX in 1254 expelled all the Jews. This hatred continued on till the late 18-19th century where Jews were particularly disliked, books, media, and general hatred for Jews was common. Then the Nazi's, nuff said?
Blacks. Ohh...shit did I say blacks? I meant...afro...oh f uck that, black people have recently come under this new light of using the race card, but before that blacks were seen as slaves to us, really where did I get that from? Maybe from Western Europeans and Americans using them as slaves until it was abolished, and this racism never stopped though, it took them a long time before a black person could sit next to a white person on a bus, or a black person could run for president. Hell, there's never been a black president, but I doubt that's got much to with race.
Sexism is pretty straight forward, men have always looked down on women (sometimes in a good way
) and never thought as equal, but luckily that's changing now, but still we have people who still prejudice to women, stuff like jobs and other macho things are being challenged by females who wish to be treated as equals.Homosexuals are still being persecuted for their "crimes", in some countries homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death, in some countries it's illegal for homosexuals to get married and so forth, times are changing and in some countries gays are allowed to get married.
Even minor (I don't mean minor as in inferior, I meant as it wasn't as a big deal like the holocaust or slavery) races like the Irish and Pakistanis in this country were mocked and ridiculed and some were hurt and killed through racism and prejudice.
Maybe this is just the Arab's and Muslim's time in the soon, think about it really. I'm not saying you should accept all the racist taunts and give up, but it just seems us humans are following a pattern, or to me it is, a pattern that has being going on for thousands of years and to be honest, I don't think it's going to stop anytime soon. This isn't a bias view, this is a wake up call. For me it is anyway.
This isn't about right or wrong, left or right, this is about realising what disgusting things we can do to each other, and this really woke me up a bit more. I wonder who we'll target next, the Chinese, or maybe the Italians?
I would mention the Canadians and the French. But do they count? (OOh burn. Sorry, that was very...very poor.
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