Dot.@feddit.org to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoCNN apologises and bans conservative commentator after racist remark made on air.www.thejournal.ieexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1316arrow-down17
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minus-squaresolsangraal@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up62arrow-down2·17 days agothe implication is that all arabs are terrorists, which is 100% racist
minus-squarecygnus@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up33·17 days agoWorse still, Hasan isn’t Arab at all. He was born in the UK to Indian parents.
minus-squareInverseParallax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·17 days agoYeah, I was born in the US to Indian parents, and I was still 100% an Arab terrist in the south.
minus-squareArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down40·edit-217 days agoI think that’s quite a stretch. Girdusky’s comment is clearly a response specifically to Hasan’s expression of support for Palestinians. What’s the connection between “all supporters of Palestinians are terrorists” and being an Arab?
minus-squarejohker216@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32arrow-down2·17 days agoAnd the pagers targeted Hezbollah, not Palestinians. Ergo, racist.
minus-squareBirdObserver@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·17 days agoSome people can’t hear the dog whistles until they become bullhorns.
minus-squaresolsangraal@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·17 days agoLOL ok… i guess congrats for being one of the like 10 people who think that guy’s not actually racist
minus-squarevoracitude@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·17 days ago I think that’s quite a stretch. I assure you, it is not.
minus-squareMonkRome@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·16 days agoAsk yourself if he would have said that comment to a white Christian. If not, then you have your answer.
the implication is that all arabs are terrorists, which is 100% racist
Worse still, Hasan isn’t Arab at all. He was born in the UK to Indian parents.
Yeah, I was born in the US to Indian parents, and I was still 100% an Arab terrist in the south.
I think that’s quite a stretch. Girdusky’s comment is clearly a response specifically to Hasan’s expression of support for Palestinians. What’s the connection between “all supporters of Palestinians are terrorists” and being an Arab?
And the pagers targeted Hezbollah, not Palestinians. Ergo, racist.
Some people can’t hear the dog whistles until they become bullhorns.
LOL ok… i guess congrats for being one of the like 10 people who think that guy’s not actually racist
I assure you, it is not.
Ask yourself if he would have said that comment to a white Christian. If not, then you have your answer.