>> POLICE IN KENT WASHINGTON ARE INVESTIGATING A POTENTIAL HATE
CRIME AGAINST A SIKH MAN, A 39-YEAR-OLD MAN, WHO WAS
APPROACHED BY A MASKED GUNMAN AND WAS SHOT FOR APPEARING TO BE
FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY.
LUCKILY THE VICTIM IS NOT ñ HE IS STILL
ALIVE.
HE WAS SHOT ON HIS ARM AND IS RECOVERING.
HE IS NOT
SUFFERING FROM A FATAL INJURY.
ONE THING I DO WANT TO NOTE, THE
SHOOTER IS STILL ON THE LOOSE AND INVESTIGATORS ARE TRYING TO
FIGURE OUT WHERE HE IS OR WHO HE
IS.
AFTER 9/11 A LOT OF SIKH CITIZENS IN AMERICA WERE VICTIMS
OF HATE CRIMES BECAUSE THEY GET CONFUSED FOR MUSLIMS.
WHETHER
THEY ARE MUSLIM OR NOT SHOULDN'T MATTER, HATE CRIMES SHOULD NOT
OCCUR IN THE UNITED STATES, BUT THEY DO.
HERE IS THE LATEST
VICTIM OF THAT KIND OF BIGOTRY.
>>REMEMBER JUST LAST WEEK THERE WERE TWO INDIAN MEN SHOT IN
KANSAS.
ONE OF THEM PASSED AWAY, HIS FATHER SAID- EMPLOYED
PARENTS IN INDIA TO "NOT SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO THE UNITED
STATES."
THAT IS WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE AND HOW IT IS
BEING PERCEIVED AROUND THE
WORLD.
ALL THE FOLKS WHO ARE SHOT ARE NOT MUSLIM.
THE PEOPLE
SHOOTING THEM THOUGHT THEY WERE
BECAUSE THEY ARE IGNORANT BIGOTS.
WHEN WE CALL BIGOTS
IGNORANT IT IS VERY LITERAL.
TO
THEM WEARING A TURBAN, SEEK, COMES FROM INDIA, THEY COULDN'T
POSSIBLY TELL THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THAT PERSON AND SOMEONE WEARING A TURBAN FROM
AFGHANISTAN.
ALMOST ALL PRACTICING SIKHS DO WHERE
TURBINES.
IF YOU ARE SHOOTING SOMEONE WITH A TURBAN THEY ARE
LIKELY TO NOT BE MUSLIM.
AGAIN, BIGOTRY IS NOT SOPHISTICATED OR
NUANCED.
IT'S IGNORANT AND STUPID.
IF YOU ARE SHOOTING
SOMEONE WHO IS ACTUALLY MUSLIM
IT WOULD MAKE IT 0% BETTER.
ADDRESS ME CRAZY BECAUSE I LOVE
AMERICA AND I DEFEND IT ALL THE TIME, NOW WHEN YOU GO TO DEFEND
AMERICA THEY SAY WELL, IT
DEPENDS DOESN'T IT?
IN MY CASE, I LOOK CUBAN, I MIGHT NOT GET SHOT.
>> YOU DON'T LOOK CUBAN.
>>THAT WAS AN INSULT.
BUT IF YOU ARE BROWN OR WEARING A TURBAN IS
EASY FOR YOU TO SAY AMERICA IS
GREAT?
A LITTLE LESS EASY TODAY.
>> RIGHT NOW THERE IS A LOT OF PARANOIA ON BOTH SIDES.
I LOVE
THE COMMENT ABOUT HOW RHETORIC
MATTERS ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES FROM THE PRESIDENT OR HIS
ADMINISTRATION TAUGHT THE TYPE
OF RHETORIC HE USES, REFERRING TO MEXICANS AS RAPISTS, OR
MUSLIMS AS TERRORISTS, IT CONVINCES PEOPLE THAT YOU NEED
TO BE WORRIED ABOUT THESE INDIVIDUALS BECAUSE THEY ARE OUT
TO GET YOU.
HE LEADS TO PARANOIA ON THE RIGHT.
THIS 39-YEAR-OLD
SIKH MAN WAS JUST FIXING HIS CAR.
THINK ABOUT WHAT HE HAD TO
DEAL WITH.
THAT KIND OF STORY LEADS TO PARANOIA AMONG
MINORITIES BECAUSE WHY WOULD YOU
WANT TO INTERACT WITH PEOPLE AND INTERACTS WITH ANYONE IF THIS IS
THE TYPE OF STUFF HAPPENING AROUND THE COUNTRY.
I AM A SUPER
PRIVILEGED WHITE WOMAN AND I
FEEL THE PARANOIA.
I DON'T WANT TO BE
IN BIG CROWDS.
YOU HEAR ABOUT
THIS VIOLENCE AND THESE STORIES.
>>THE OTHER PART OF IT IS
THEY ARE THUGS AND TERRORISTS.
TO
THEM IT'S NOT ABOUT BEING A CITIZEN OR AN AMERICAN, IT IS
ABOUT RACE.
FOR EXAMPLE WHEN TRUMP SAYS WE NEED A TOTAL AND
COMPLETE SHUTDOWN OF MUSLIMS.
HE SAID THAT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.
IF YOU ARE A TRIM VOTER, YOU VOTED FOR HIM USUALLY BECAUSE OF
THAT, NOT DESPITE THAT.
SOME OF YOU DESPITE, BUT MOST OF YOU
BECAUSE.
IF YOU DON'T KNOW ñ THOSE COUNTRIES HAVE HAD ZERO
FATAL ATTACKS IN THE UNITED
STATES OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS.
NOT A SINGLE FATAL TERRORIST
ATTACK HERE.
THERE ARE RIGHT-WING TERRORIST ATTACKS
LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE DIFFERENCES EXCEPT
YOUR OWN BIGOTRY.
THE BAN IS COMPLETELY UNJUSTIFIED.
15 OUT
OF THE 19 HIJACKERS WERE FROM
SAUDI ARABIA AND THEY REMAIN
COMPLETELY UN-BANNED.
THE BAN IS
COMPLETELY WRONG AND IS BASED ON DEMAGOGUERY AND BIGOTRY.
IF YOU
STILL AGREE WITH THE BAN YOU ARE JUST STUPID
AND HATEFUL.
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