In relation to 9/11, has your attitude/feelings toward arabs changed?

I think the mainstream population has really gone negative toward arabs since 9/11. particularly toward Islam. i've heard it many times. How about you? any changes, whether slight or obvious? why is that?

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Actually yes, it has. I became more aware of their situation and RESPECTED them for their actions. They are merely trying to protect themselves from the american agendas of globalization and war profiteering.

I am sure if China invaded us the US invaded Iraq and killed your family, destroyed your home, killed a countless number of civilians, that you too would go kill them with your guns or bombs.


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Pip, you are correct. maybe i should actually denote my sarcasm. not when i say that i love you of course.


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yes unovegan they would still be bad people. That sort of violence would not help the veg movement at all.


Answer by The notorious P.I.P

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I do not descriminate. I remember a few of my friends in school had to leave school just because they were Islamic... Other students were basically committing hate crimes towards them (not physical but verbal ones that were scary). It's really sad because they were just trying to get an education :( I think that sometimes our government acts like a terrorist organization - so who are we to judge?


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I might care about Arabs more than I did before because it seems that the US government is using racist propaganda to cover up what the crimes the government has been committing. In my experience, people are people, regardless of ethnicity or creed.


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No, I don´t think so - no, maybe a little more suspicious. But I am shocked at the amount of anti-Arab rhetoric I have sometimes come across, not least in Myspace, and have written against it in a attempt to redress the balance.

I tend to see and meet people as they are: PEOPLE. I am also very aware that there are good and bad people in every camp. I have sympathy for ordinary, decent people who are treated unfairly and made the butt of someone else´s hatred and prejudice, not least because it is also something I encounter as a Christian, Catholic and sister from time to time! And the sad thing is you can not reason with that kind of person...


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I'm not a big fan of Islam, just like I'm not a big fan of Christianity.

But no, my feelings towards Arabs have not changed, except perhaps that I feel bad for the ones who have to deal with the after effects of 9/11 here, when they have nothing to do with it.


Answer by animalia_libero

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There was this little prick in school who believed that everyone hated him because he was in a wheelchair. "No, fucker...we don't hate you because you're in a wheelchair, we hate you because you're an asshole. Get over yourself, already."

People like to cry "racist" for ANYTHING, like PiP said, even though it may make no sense at all.

I guess I didn't answer your question, sorry. :( Hmm...maybe now there is more of an illusion of racism, because everything is taken to that extreme? (You don't agree with what I said? You must be racist against ______)

If a person who happened to be Arab were acting "nutty" I would be uncomfortable, but no more than if a white person were (I'm white).


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the way i see it there are bad people in every culture/race. my veiws have not changed at all.

now as for my sister and mother they have become very predjudice/racist towards anyone that looks arab.


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So, you're saying that arabs that behead journalists are bad people? what if they behead rednecks who shoot alley cats with pellet guns? are they still bad people or have they become tools for the veg revolution? something to think about?


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No but I was really annoyed when 3 days after 911 an arab girl accused me of being racist. I didn't even know what she was talking about and had even told her I liked the way her eye makeup was done (she waited until late at the checkout to tell me how racist I was). I later told her she was a bitch (and that was just because she was a bitch, not because she was Arab). I'm sure she was just feeling overly sensitive because of what was going on and she probably had to deal with people looking at her like she was a terrorist all day. But even still I didn't do anything to her so meh.

My opinion is unchanged. There are good Arabs (ones that dont behead journalists to get their point across) and there are bad Arabs (the ones that do). Just like there are good Christians or atheists or furries and bad ones. No group of people is perfect or without extremists or people who twist the ideals of their group into whatever they want.
Plus I don't have time to not like Arabs, I'm too busy hating the rednecks I sell pellet guns to so they can shoot squirells and alley cats...


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nope
not at all

If anything it has made me sympathize with what they are going through. The prejudice and all that they face on a daily basis.


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Honestly, I think everyone is a product of their environment and that includes racism that is ingrained since birth no matter how subtle or obvious. That said, a person who rejects these things can overcome what was learned as a child. I have consciously dealt with whatever misconceptions I had learned as a small child because I know that we are all equal as human beings and everyone has a right to be here. I would say I was around mild racism as child, nothing outstanding but it was there and unacceptable to me. My feelings about Arabs as people is unchanged. People that I know have been touched by these changes in attitude (the uncloseted racism) and it breaks my heart. The radical religions are a whole other story...I don't mean just Islam.


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Yeah it caused me to read the Koran. It changed my opionion as to how incredibly BLIND to the obvious my compatriots are. Made me think a lot about red white and blue false flags...


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