antiracism

>>>>> "alex" == Alex Lieber <alexedit68-/[email protected]> writes:

  alex> I hope our citizens do not degenerate into hateful,
  alex> revenge-seeking madness against our fellow citizens who are
  alex> Arab or Muslim. I'll resist and defend against actions taken
  alex> against our fellow citizens.

  alex> But yes, I will look at every face that looks Middle Eastern a
  alex> little longer, and then scan over his body to see if he
  alex> constitutes a possible threat, especially in public places.

This is troublesome and undercuts what you've just said.

Let's just talk probabilities, huh? There are *maybe*, at the most
extreme case, 100 people of Middle East ethnicity in the US that might
have something to do, however remotely, with some kind of violent
plans or contingencies. *Maybe*.

There are 300,000,000 people in America, probably 15,000,000 of whom
are somehow Middle Eastern.

Do the fecking math!

  alex> We're at war now. I wish it weren't so.

Nope. There's been no formal declaration of that. No war powers have
been requested or granted the President.

Further, even if true, one of the most shameful things that's ever
happened in the US was the internment (and property seizure) of
Japanese-Americans.

Being suspicious of Arab-looking people fosters an irrational, hateful
climate, the kind that *eggs on* overreaction, rather than urges calm
and proportionality.

Kendall Clark