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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN contributor: "Sikhs 'unfairly targeted'"
Wow. If you can't get decent commentators, then don't get any at all, CNN.
Buzzfeed tweets: "CNN saying Sikhs "unfairly" targeted because they are mistaken for Muslims seems to imply it's fair to target Muslims"
CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor replies: "not what I was saying at all. Relating what experts have said why Sikhs have been targeted in the past."
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/cnn-sikhs-unfairly-mistaken-for-muslims
The CNN guy is full of shit. 'Unfairly' is a value judgement - not someone else's, but his - and he says it at least twice. And it implies that targeting mosques is not 'unfair'.
winstars
(4,247 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Who, then, pray, is the RIGHT target?
pinto
(106,886 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)I would say it is reasonable to call their targeting inaccurate.
Says a hell of a lot about this country that our bigoted hate monsters are too stupid and lazy to know the difference between a Sikh and a Muslim.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)"Ragheads, all of them. Good riddance."
Sometimes we seem but a short distance from Germany 1933.
Other times it seems like we're already there.
LiberalLoner
(9,946 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)that would make Goebbels blush.
muriel_volestrangler
(102,331 posts)It is reasonable to report that they get mistaken for Muslims by the bigots. But when, in the same sentence, he describes that as 'unfair', it implies a similar attack on Muslims would not be 'unfair'.
Ignorance knows no bounds - in Britain, the house of a pediatrician was graffiti'd by people who couldn't tell the difference between that and a pedophile.
The incident took place in Newport, Gwent, not in Portsmouth (where there had been anti-paedophile protests after eight-year-old Sarah Payne was murdered) or London.
Dr Cloete returned from work at the Royal Gwent Hospital to find "paedo" spray-painted on her front door. Local police believe the graffiti was written by someone who confused her job title with the word paedophile.
It was no doubt a very distressing incident for Ms Cloete, who decided to move home shortly afterwards. But there is no evidence that a mob was involved or of any threats or incidents of physical pressure or violence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4719364.stm
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)They hate everyone who is different form them. Jeez, even we Unitarians are k\Godless & different enough to provoke attacks from the hatemongers.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)attacked. If god loved us we would all be bald white men with nothing better to do than shoot innocent people
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)And I have a pickup truck, own guns, and live in the country.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)wear wife beaters I won't allow it!
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)malaise
(277,303 posts)This is disgusting
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)winstars
(4,247 posts)the MSM and it could get really stupid if what we are seeing in these early hours is any indication.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)Jeez.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)mountain grammy
(27,152 posts)wahhhh! Our mainstream media continues to fail in their duty to present news and facts and maintain some shred of journalistic integrety. Wonder if they even realize their role in the decline of our democracy or if they're just too busy "looking good?"
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)And some jerk out there will pick up on the message that it's okay to target Muslims.
Then again, there are those who will hear this as coming from the "Liberal Media" and think it's okay to target Sikhs too and consider it to be "thinking for themselves" or "going against the conspiracy".
zeemike
(18,998 posts)sometimes I think we should check the watter for lead in right wing places.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)I get the feeling that's why West Virginia is so messed up.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)stockholmer
(3,751 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)Six people dead because some dumbass flunked high school geography...
Robyn66
(1,675 posts)Muslims, Doctors who perform abortions and IRS agents to name a few. Its disgusting. They didn't say the movie theater in Col was "unfairly targeted" just the FACT it was a TRAGEDY!
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)My only choices were CNN & FOX. Pathetic to put it mildly.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)allan01
(1,950 posts)condoleces to the familes . and anyone who is "different " is targeted.
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)didn't think so.
pscot
(21,031 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(50,642 posts)It's the modern disease that people don't think much.
He used a stupid turn of phrase. That on its own is not evidence of malice toward Muslims.
He's incompetent. He should be fired for incompetence, not malice.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)But probably a.Freudian slip that says a bit about him.
dembotoz
(16,922 posts)and some of it brought on by the Sikhs themselves
sort of a we are peaceful we must have been mistaken for someone else kind of vibe.
who the someone else is?
pretty obvious
we should prob excuse some of this because hey some fool just shot up their church.
sad day
sad coverage
cthulu2016
(10,960 posts)After the Oklahoma City bombing there was all that endless stuff about the "innocent" kids in the daycare center who had done nothing wrong.
As opposed to the federal government employees who one could understand blowing up???
And we get extra outraged about "senseless" crimes like beating someone to death for $22.00. They never specify the dollar figure that would make the crime sensible... $38? $146?
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,479 posts)It's technically correct in that Sikhs are not Muslims (although braindead idiots think they are) and by that false assumption, they have suffered as a result.
But it has the tendancy of being overread to assume that it would have been somehow more excusable had the shooting occurred at a Islamic mosque instead of a Sikh temple.
I doubt that was the intended purpose of the speaker, but whatever.
It reminds me a little of the Susan Smith situation where Smith had falsely claimed her children had been kidnapped by a black man. This seemed to stoke racial fires--white woman trotting out the scary black man stereotype. But the ultimate truth was that Smith had killed her own children and there had never been a kidnapping. Thus, it would not have been right for her to falsely claim that a white man kidnapped her kids, either.
It's a tricky line to walk.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)been Muslims who had been killed by this same gunman?
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)referred to so far not once.
Well done, DU.
ashling
(25,771 posts)Must have been like a mass murder gone bad
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)What an asshole.
elias7
(4,180 posts)I don't read an implication that because Sikhs are unfairly targeted, that Muslims are fair game. I think they could realized the ambiguity in the statement before putting on air, but no one here is giving an inch.
JI7
(90,233 posts)he said how it woulodn't be ok even if they were Muslim. he used better words but i was glad to hear it.
marble falls
(61,707 posts)DFW
(56,316 posts)The NYPD mistaking a Sikh for an Arab is exactly what happens in a scene from Spike Lee's film.
JHB
(37,379 posts)...which covered a lot of people, including Iranian Christians who were here in the first place because they were fleeing the Khomeini regime.
They don't care about the details, it's all people they hate anyway.
PavePusher
(15,374 posts)Yeah the guy chose his phrasing poorly; impromptu speaking can do that to anyone.
I have seen no evidence of malice involved. If someone has some, please present it.
And if you want to fire him for this, you'll have to fire all talking heads everywhere, on every network.
Heh, that might actually be a good thing....