You Know You're a Bigot
When...
By Cenk Uygur
February 20, 2015 "ICH"
- You know you're a bigot when you
can't take out the word "Muslim" from a
sentence you stated and replace it with
"Jew" and still have it be socially
acceptable. Let's start out nice and easy. A
sentence I get with great regularity:
"You're a Muslim apologist."
Ok, let's try our simple
test here:
"You're a Jew apologist."
Wow, that sounded ugly,
didn't it? Wait, let's be fair and phrase it
slightly differently and see if it gets any
better:
"You're an apologist for
the Jews."
Nope, that wasn't any
better.
So, why are you obviously
bigoted when you say it about Jewish people
and not equally bigoted when you say it
about Muslims? It's partly because there are
very few people in America ready to stick up
for Muslims. That's, ironically, because
they will be called Muslim apologists.
Let's try one more:
"Muslims have to apologize
for the actions of other Muslims; otherwise
they're just like the bad Muslims."
Oh boy, here we go:
"Jews have to apologize
for other Jews; otherwise they're just like
the bad Jews."
If you get a chill down
your spine with the latter sentence, maybe
you should get a chill down your spine for
the former one as well. Are we at the point
in this country or in the world where
Muslims are being treated in the same
horribly bigoted ways Jewish people have
been in the past? No, we're not there yet.
Six million Jews perished in the Holocaust
alone. Beware of simplistic analogies. But
Sandra Day O'Connor
put it best when warning against
authoritarianism in America, "We should
avoid these ends by avoiding these
beginnings."
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