Temperature Rising
Via a reader, a post on the website Craigslist:
Another poster replies:
If Obama wins, what will they do with themselves for four or eight years? Will blogs, internet message boards, and Fox News be enough of an outlet?
Last summer my folks were in town and we took a cab to the theater. My mom tried to strike up a conversation with this Muslim cabbie -- just being friendly like she always is -- and he immediately bit her head off: |
Another poster replies:
you are so right...back in the 70's there was actual cigar chomping cabbie types who you could have a conversation with and knew the city in and out..they knew the best bars and best hangouts.. |
If Obama wins, what will they do with themselves for four or eight years? Will blogs, internet message boards, and Fox News be enough of an outlet?
posted by The Cunning Realist at Wednesday, June 11, 2008
16 Comments:
Smells like propaganda. If it's DOD financed, perhaps they'll be writing from Leavenworth for the next several years: by snail mail.
No their going to want to give him the Clinton treatment. Congressional investigations on day 1 and no honeymoon.
Learn enough Arabic to say "good morning".
If they smile, it's cool.If they launch into a tirade, then you should have learned enough Arabic to say "Put a sock in it!"
If that doesn't work, demand they stop and let you off.
I usually get smiles, even though they actually speak Urdu.
(If they have learnt enough English to berate the USA while driving cross town at rush hour, I think we should be able to pick up a little of their language.)
Come on folks...Craig's List as a source? This makes absolutely NO common sense. No one looking for tips is going to go into an anti-US tirade, particularly in NYC with homeland security and paranoid heartland tourists.
If indeed CR, you are being sarcastic and asking what right-wing comment trolls will be up to for the next 8 years, I imagine it will be something along the lines of Timothy McVeigh sorts of outlets (militias, plots against the New World Order, etc.) An Obama presidency is really going to bring the kooks out of the woodwork.
They are furiously stroking their copies of The Turner Diaries as we speak.
Listen up, folks... nobody had any tirade in a cab. Jeebus!
The point here is the continued development of a narrative about the bogeyman in our midst... fear, loathing, danger!
A fellow co-worker, educated to the Masters degree level, was wringing his hands about how he could "never vote for Obama because he said the oath of office on the Koran and refused to pledge allegiance to the flag."
Obama = Osama = your kids will all be dead!
It's pointless to try to change this mentality-- we simply need to take this nation back from these idiots who have taken control.
WendyO beat me by 2 minutes, Darn! I have to type FASTER!
It's this kind of crap that worries me that some nutjob's gonna take a shot at Obama.
I'd say there'll be more than one nutjob. And, make that Obamas like in wife and two children.
Some Muslims rant, Some non-Muslims rant. I've heard both. Dismissing the report as fabricated "propaganda" is unhelpful. Both the American and the Muslim in the Craig's list post were wrong to go off on a stranger.
Yet Muslims observing certain aspects of American culture through their own cultural lenses have good reasons for some of their criticism. Non-Muslims observing certain aspects of Muslim culture through their own cultural lenses also have good reasons for some of their criticisms.
Both the Muslim and the non-Muslim in the Craig/s list post have hateful attitudes which they justify by the hateful attitudes of the other party in a never-ending, ever-escalating cycle.
The only way to win this game is to refuse to play it.
This is too far over the top to be anything else than a plant. I have already seen a few chain e-mails of similar stench. Sadly, you will never see any positive ones like this: My sister was helped by a Muslim cabbie in NC who gave her a couple of free rides when he found out she was in dire straits. He explained to her it was his duty as a Muslim to help the less fortunate. Of course wouldn't support the narrative now, would it?
please tell me you're not using the rants/rave section of craigslist to gauge public opinion on muslims.
amen Robert.
I wonder what BHO's chances of winning the general election are? A lot of people are going to buy in to the crazy stories floating around about him.
-Medicine Man
I have lived and cabbed in NYC for 26 years now and I have NEVER encountered anything like that.
Another set of posts on this whole 'temp rising' issue:
now keep in mind, the comments are on a celeb Gossip website!
http://www.tmz.com/2008/06/16/mickey-doesnt-wear-turbans/#comments
wow this shows that there is some hope in the world, my name is johan and im from sweden. The islam is spreading like a plague true europe and we basicly have bush and his war to thank for that. The rage against america is spreading in the same degree as the love for islam and their brainwash bullshit is and when my best friend turned to islam and all of a sudden taught it was ok to stone me for my sins and enforce islam laws in sweden i snapped so im dedicating all of my speartime from no on to bring down this ancient, political fairytale. I would appreciate all the feedback on breaking muslims that i can get so please mail me with comment at dizzzzy83@hotmail.com We realists need to come together worldwide as they do to prevent them from brainwashing our friends and family. Death to the cult of islam!!! //fairytale hater
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