Boston Marathon bombings and Native racism

[naparyaq]

A whole new level of weird. Who knew?

From a blog this morning:

I'm not sure it's fair to say Chechens are any more brutal or crazy than any other group - Catholics, Native Americans, Blacks etc.

My response:

You can compare Native Americans to Chechens when there is a Native America in the United States and Canada.

You equate Native American with extreme Islamic terrorism?

To add to the drama of stark criminal violence, there's now a bunch of perfectly "reasonable" white people running around flailing about "Asians" and "Chechen rebels." As we knew there would be. Someone was trying to find a different descriptor for 'middle eastern' and said "Southwest Asian," meaning an Arab or Muslim or Egyptian or Turk or Pakistani that doesn't 'look' Middle Eastern. What? Someone else said: "Semitic-looking."

I just called my kid in a big city in another state and told her - heightened awareness and vigilance. Tell people where you're going and don't walk alone. She's brown. With a strange long foreign-sounding indigenous last name without enough vowels to please airport security.

No fear and no paranoia; just personal safety. <sigh>

[Mahekun]

Good God some people are devastatingly stupid.