[Just a few thoughts I noted on Facebook, I wanted to preserve them here.]
An undercurrent of racism?
Race or ethnicity is the least interesting thing to me. some people get annoyed or offended if I say it of my background, but to me it wouldn't matter where I or you are from. And if you base your life and sense of belonging on race, then I think you're missing something important.
I get this from nationalists who say they "aren't racist, but..." But
they worry about the death of the white race, they don't see Islam as a
race but they assume Indian(south Asian, in general) and middle
eastern people are Muslims. And yes, they're the same people who worry
about extremist Islam but mock Muslims who don't stick to a hardline
view of the faith, thus condemning moderation within the faith to a
degree. Islam isn't a race, but a lot of critics of Islam, mostly older
men, see a brown person from north Africa, middle east or Indian or
maybe Indonesia, and they assume they're Muslim and they might be the
enemy to some degree. Basically, suggest; "If they aren't here to attack
us they're here to outbreed us." So I'm not a fan of the
not-racist-racists, or closeted racists, or those who otherwise don't
see that they're the kind of commenting fools who gives, anyone who
wants it, an example of ignorance and casual racism.
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