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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#127776: Jun 26th 2016 at 9:27:49 AM

Iranian = Brown = Muslim = Bad

Is generally how the logic goes in America.

Oh really when?
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#127777: Jun 26th 2016 at 9:30:37 AM

But the logic breaks down at every single step!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#127778: Jun 26th 2016 at 9:31:04 AM

Welcome to America

Oh really when?
Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#127779: Jun 26th 2016 at 9:32:54 AM

[up] Welcome to the World, more like...

Keep Rolling On
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#127780: Jun 26th 2016 at 9:39:55 AM

Even though white Iranians and white Iraqis do exist...

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#127781: Jun 26th 2016 at 9:49:01 AM

Iranians are the original Aryans. They're pretty damn white.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#127782: Jun 26th 2016 at 9:59:47 AM

And?

Muslim = Brown Iranian = Muslim

Thus Iranians get a brown filter shade to the people following this train.

Don't argue logic, mang.

edited 26th Jun '16 10:00:05 AM by PotatoesRock

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#127783: Jun 26th 2016 at 10:16:33 AM

A lot of people don't acknowledge that being Hispanic isn't a racial thing either or that there are White Mexicans/whatever group.

I mean, I don't share Garcon's crushing cynicism, but his logic is probably apt for Trump and (in general) his supporters.

edited 26th Jun '16 10:17:05 AM by LSBK

Zendervai Since: Oct, 2009
#127784: Jun 26th 2016 at 10:47:35 AM

Yeah, Hispanic is more of a melange thing. And, of course, the US constantly flip-flops about whether or not Hispanic and White are the same thing.

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#127785: Jun 26th 2016 at 10:50:33 AM

Oh don't tell me about it, people in Baltimore didn't really think I was South American while I was there because I wasn't brown enough for that.

Inter arma enim silent leges
tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Never Trust
#127786: Jun 26th 2016 at 10:53:53 AM

@127776 More Welcome to Red State America. Not that Blue and Purple states are entirely immune or that there aren't enclaves of decency in the Red states but that is the prevailing tendency.

edited 26th Jun '16 10:55:40 AM by tricksterson

Trump delenda est
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#127787: Jun 26th 2016 at 11:10:06 AM

When people think of Brown Muslims, they are thinking of North Africans and South Asians. Several Western Asian countries are very white, and Central Asians and Southeast Asians look more like East Asians.

edited 26th Jun '16 11:42:21 AM by Bat178

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#127788: Jun 26th 2016 at 11:30:19 AM

There's also the Balkan Muslims too.

TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#127789: Jun 26th 2016 at 11:36:28 AM

Finland has the Tatars that migrated here a long time ago.

edited 26th Jun '16 11:36:44 AM by TerminusEst

Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#127790: Jun 26th 2016 at 11:54:10 AM

Lol, don't even try to talk about Ethnic groups in Africa. That shit will probably make your head explode.

New Survey coming this weekend!
pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#127791: Jun 26th 2016 at 1:03:19 PM

[up]The original Star Trek television series did an episode that lampshaded racism and bigotry, with two aliens who were half black and half white — literally. Their basis for determining who was "us" and who was "them" was which side of their face (right or left) was black and which side was white. To the crew of the Enterprise, it seemed a silly and arbitrary distinction, but the aliens fought a centuries-long genocidal war over it.

This Space Intentionally Left Blank.
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#127793: Jun 27th 2016 at 7:36:56 AM

Some items from the Supreme Court

They've ruled 5-3 to knock down Texas' Abortion Restrictions, declare surgical center requirements and the admitting privileges provisions unconstitutional. Swing vote was Kennedy.

They've also unanimously annulled former Virginia Governor Mc Donnell's corruption charges.

edited 27th Jun '16 7:47:20 AM by PotatoesRock

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#127794: Jun 27th 2016 at 7:52:54 AM

Trump emails: Can you spare $10 to help elect a billionaire?: http://bigstory.ap.org/7710e8016349408e93c24429b0ec67f1

edited 27th Jun '16 7:53:37 AM by sgamer82

PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#127795: Jun 27th 2016 at 8:04:15 AM

Speaking of Trump:

Texas Abortion Supreme Court Case likely to drive Evangelicals in Trump's arms.

As for McDonnell, the gist is the Supreme Court says the cast was too vague. And it looks like they accepted arguments that some level of figleaf'd Quid Pro Quo between Lobbyists/Special Interest Groups and Politicians needs to exist.

(It's comically common for Lobbyists and the like to take politicians out to sports events, fancy dinners, be given gifts, etc.)

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#127796: Jun 27th 2016 at 8:09:23 AM

[up] I don't think they'll get too many people in Trump's camp who weren't there already. Abortion seems to be a particular bugaboo of elected Republicans but not something that drives voters to the polls over other issues, not any more.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#127798: Jun 27th 2016 at 8:40:49 AM

Well, if evangelicals had been really serious about their faith-based politics this cycle, why'd they overwhelmingly support Trump over Cruz? It's not clear that Trump gives a hoot-and-a-holler about opposing abortion or LGBT rights.

edited 27th Jun '16 8:41:11 AM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#127799: Jun 27th 2016 at 8:54:22 AM

[up]Is it evangelicals specifically that support Trump over Cruz? That seems improbable.

Leviticus 19:34
Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#127800: Jun 27th 2016 at 8:57:04 AM

Should spell an end to TRAP laws, then. Depends on how wide-reaching the ruling is.


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