mamajuana wrote:
This is one of the most offensive things yet in a long line of offensive things from whoever this person is who calls himself perception. Perception, of course, being one of the most inaccurate avatars yet seen.
Mamaj, this has become rather routine since 12th September. Frequent comments I hear:
"Why don't you go back where you came from!" (frequently heard. The last time this morning at Starbucks)
"You people all just want to steal our technology and our jobs!"
"What are you gonna do, blow yourself up?" (from a person at the food court at UMBC when I complained about the rather pink chicken in a bunch'o'nuggets.)
If your type would fight like men, instead of being cowards we'd see who the real winners are!" (unwelcome reposnse from bystander when my girlfriend (an Algerian-American) and I were discussing the failure of teh Arab-Israeli peace plan).
"You people worship the devil and wanna' kill Christians" (Ironic, since I am ostensibly agnostic, but was raised Catholic. In fact, my family still holds out faint hope that I may enter the priesthood. Now, being familiar as I am with pre-Nicaean Christianity, the devil worship thing is discussable in terms of the development of Christian doctrine.....)
This is rather ironic, since I am a US citizen, adopted as an infant by parents from Wyoming!
My father, a geologist, and my mother had been living in Libya since 1959. They acquired me in 1967. I have no idea who my real parents were. I know my birth mother gave me to a Catholic Orphanage (yes, those existed in Libya at the time...still do probably), so I would guess she was a very young girl who needed to preserve the illusion of virginity...but I digress. I have come to expect bigotry,and have done my best to turn the other cheek. I won't tell you how often I had to avoid flattening people for the epithet "raghead" when I was in Desert Storm/Provide Comfort. Perception's bigotry is further proof of the intellectual bakruptcy of his position. Ah, well....