tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29566846.post6209959154994226764..comments2023-11-05T01:45:58.784-07:00Comments on The Hesperado: Muslim Profiling Revisited and “Mr. X”—ConclusionHesperadohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29566846.post-71183375819716041122011-12-17T03:47:11.804-08:002011-12-17T03:47:11.804-08:00You have to ask why it's a big mistake to feed...You have to ask why it's a big mistake to feed people's ignorance about race? I didn't expand on it before because I didn't think it required further explanation. It seems self-evident that spreading misinformation is a bad idea in that it degrades the general level of intelligence and awareness; and I thought it obvious that it's an even worse idea when it's the same kind of misinformation being spread by your enemies (PC MCs); and I assumed you would see the contradiction of using physical appearance to advocate racial profiling, and then deflecting criticism of your approach by claiming race is only a "mythological construct."<br /><br />At first I thought you were just bad at making identifications, but now I think that it's deliberate. You have this simplistic "white/non-white" worldview tainted with politics and you proceed to force reality to fit into it no matter what. You don't go by what people actually look like or what they are. You go by your own preset notions of what you <i>think</i> they should look like, or what you <i>need</i> them to be for whatever point you're trying to make. That's why you continue to insist that Cat Stevens has always looked "brown" in the face of evidence to the contrary, and then mention Mr. Bean as an example of someone who's unambiguously "white," when in fact he could make the transition to "brown" at least as convincingly as Cat Stevens:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.withfriendship.com/user/images/212/rowan-atkinson.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.withfriendship.com/user/images/212/rowan-atkinson.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://www.celebrities.deepthi.com/actors/images/Rowan-Atkinson.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.celebrities.deepthi.com/actors/images/Rowan-Atkinson.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00459/rowan_280_459000a.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00459/rowan_280_459000a.jpg</a><br /><a href="http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/4154/bean1eu.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/4154/bean1eu.jpg</a><br /><br />But it gets worse. Ringo Starr doesn't fit properly into your worldview, so you make him of "Semitic background" (or perhaps you decided he didn't look "white" only after coming to believe that he's Semitic, which, I suppose, is your strange way of saying he's Jewish). Well, he isn't. His background is fully English according to all credible sources, and he's even been quoted as saying that he's "not Jewish." But then of course, Israeli Jews are "white," as opposed to "brown" Israeli Arabs, because that's convenient for you.<br /><br />For those keeping score, that's two major ancestry gaffs you've made now. I would ask why you never bother to research these things beforehand, but I can see that truth and facts just get in your way. (This latest fiasco is ironic too, because, like the last Mr. Bean image above, there's a humorous "separated at birth" image of <a href="http://static.gigwise.com/gallery/YASSER-RINGO.jpg" rel="nofollow">Ringo and Yasser Arafat</a>.)<br /><br />Then you lump Greeks, Italians and Spaniards in with Hispanics and Moroccans as "non-white," yet consider Albanians and Bosnians (who are also southern Europeans) to be "white." I guess you need your "non-white Westerners" and your "white Muslims" to make your various points about those issues. Yet here you are making fun of me for claiming there are differences between Greeks and Cypriots. But I never went so far as to call one "white" and the other "non-white."Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08663869722105662445noreply@blogger.com