I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
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I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
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Re: I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
#2Using 10px Georgia on a Web page does get one wondering..
Re: I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
#3An exercise more people should partake in. Sometimes on HN I find it shocking just how completely clueless some of our prolific commentators are re: prejudice, whether by race, gender, creed, orientation, or anything else. The number of times I've seen people in privileged positions try to downplay, trivialize, and belittle those struggling with prejudice has made me want to quit HN more than once.
Walking a mile in someone else's shoes requires some walking, not reading about it on the internet and making armchair theories.
[edit] Seeing the other replies on this post is definitely way too depressing for Saturday night - a lot of loud, moralistic victim-blaming without understanding. For my own sanity I'm going to take myself out of this post entirely.
Re: I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
#4Using 10px Georgia on a Web page does get one wondering..
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Re: I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
#5One aspect that is probably being confounded here is that hair plays a huge role in attractiveness. By putting on a hijab and hiding her hair this girls attractiveness (at least by western standards) probably went down a bunch of points. So part of what she may have just experienced is what it's like to be an uglier person.
An interesting experiment to come up with would be to wear something that clearly indicates you are muslim but doesn't change your physical attractiveness (again by western standards).
Re: I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
#6Using 10px Georgia on a Web page does get one wondering..
That's the first thing I thought as well.
Re: I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
#7An exercise more people should partake in. Sometimes on HN I find it shocking just how completely clueless some of our prolific commentators are re: prejudice, whether by race, gender, creed, orientation, or anything else. The number of times I've seen people in privileged positions try to downplay, trivialize, and belittle those struggling with prejudice has made me want to quit HN more than once. Walking a mile in…
I'm a white guy, but I wear a trimmed beard and sometimes a skullcap when I'm exercising. I do get some funny looks, like people are trying to figure me out.
Re: I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
#8So? If I were to go to Saudi Arabia and wear jeans and a wife beater I would get looks as well.
You find it strange that people look at you funny when you wear a hijab in a western country?
I have a Muslim cousin and she sometimes wears a hijab to university but stopped because people would stare at her. Obviously! She stuck out like a sore thumb amidst a sea of people with no hijabs. She got tired of people asking her if she had cancer, if she was arab (lol at this one, people automatically think muslim == arab), etc.
Re: I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
#9If wearing a hijab cause people to call you names, throw bad looks or more generally makes you feel discriminated against, what about trying not to wear an hijab??
Maybe I'm clueless and prejudiced and all that but it seems to me that religion was a perfectly "open" choice, ie something you can change at any time.
Comparing that in any way to racism is insulting. People do not chose their ethnicity. People can chose their religion.
Your religion makes you feel bad? Then change it since you can!!
Re: I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist.
#10Using 10px Georgia on a Web page does get one wondering..
Lucky you. On my E75 (phone) it wasn't readable at all. The RSS feed (which provided the full article with the two images on top) helped me out.