Re: NPR fires Williams over Muslim fears » GetReligion

>"So, if I said "boy those people wearing white sheets on thier heads really
make me nervous when I see them in a primarily black neighborhood" that would be
exceptable. Because we all know that the KKK has a violent history driven by a
twisted religous and race motivated agenda. Of course if I said the same thing
about a muslim well that's different because... hey why is that >any different?"
 
That's a twisted and flawed comparison.  The KKK was a terrorist organization.
If Jaun Williams had said that he gets nervcous when he sees members of Al Queda
on a plane?  Well, that would be an apt comparison.  But the comparison of the
KKK to Muslims is no more legit than comparing the KKK to "Christians".
Honestly, what Williams said is closer to "When I see a black man in my
neighborhood, I lock the doors!"  And that's still a flawed comparison.
 
**it’s not as much flawed as it is subjective.  For me, when I walk past a bunch
of Mexicans lounging against a library wall I get nervous.  They never did
anything to me.  But in high school the guys who lounged there were all Mexicans
and when I walked past them I got harassed and beaten.  True story.  So yea, the
comparison might be totally valid to the person who has been robbed by blacks
enough times to instill a reasonable fear.  Details matter.

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