Why are politicians allowed to say completely racist, bigoted things about Islamic people and get away with it? If they were talking about any other race at all, they could never even think about being elected again. I realize that this is kind of more serious than what I usually talk about, but it's been bugging me.
Basically, people think it's okay to say that Barack Obama is "secretly Muslim" and that this is a bad thing. Besides the fact that this idea is stupid enough, the fact that they think this would make him "evil" is unbelievable. Yes okay, there are some Muslim extremists who are terrorists, but this is what's known as a vocal minority. In the 1400s, Christopher Columbus and his men slaughtered thousands of Indians. They were white Christian men. By the logic of these people, all white Christian men are evil. You see where I'm going with this?
How exactly can they get away with doing this? Didn't get over this crap by the end of the nineties? The Civil Rights Movement wasn't just about black people you know. It was about all races, genders, religions, sexualities, whatever. Just because Martin Luther King Jr. was a black man didn't mean that he only wanted rights for black people. Equality for all was kind of the point guys.
And what in the hell happened to separation of church and state? Isn't that kind of supposed to be a big deal? Nobody should ever, ever have rights taken away from them because of what they believe. Gay people have this same problem, and they've had to put up with it for decades.
Put your gun away Grand Dragon. We don't need you in City Hall.
Why is it ok that people say completely racist, bigoted things about white people? If people are going to be so touchy about other races, why not apply it to Caucasians too? When it comes to racism, I say all or nothing.
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I feel the exact same way about that, and I was actually planning on writing about that too at some point.
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