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I have found, through my travels, that many people cannot understand Christians, Muslims, Jews, or any religious people at all. I confess, initially, I could not comprehend how anyone could belong to any faith either. After much study, I think I’ve come up with some answers and I put them all in this diagram. I hope it helps.
From the CBC:
“Emergency crews have found a second body in the wreckage where a small plane smashed into an Austin, Texas, office building that houses a U.S. Internal Revenue Service office.”
Okay, flying a plane into a building. We’ve seen that before. But what is different this time? It seems that it is taking awhile to classify the act itself. Would there be as much confusion if the pilot was of Arabic descent or had a Arabic surname? That is the question ‘Big man” poses at the blog ‘Stuff White People do“.
Big Man says:
“I’m watching the coverage of this plane crash in Austin. The one where a dude flew a plane into the IRS building after burning his house.
And everybody is falling all over themselves not to call this cat a “terrorist.”
It’s “possible terrorist-related activity” but it’s not terrorism and he’s not a terrorist. What the hell?
How can you fly a plane into a building out of spite, and have folks call it “suicide by plane?” That’s like calling it “suicide by portable chest bomb.”
We often think of racism is a in your face type of action. Overt discrimination, the name calling, the hiring practices but here we have a possible example of the more subtle systematic nature of racism and what that entails. Patriarchy sneaks up on one like this as well.
I tend to agree with BigMan that the story would have been framed quite differently if the pilot was not Caucasian.
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