A socially acceptable bigotry?
Glenn Greenwald has a new post out in which he charges that bigotry against Arabs is held to a double standard in our political discourse. He quotes as an example this outrageous statement from the editor of the New Republic: "I couldn’t quite imagine any venture requiring trust with Arabs turning out especially well."
Wait...what?! Did we somehow flash back to Spain in the dark ages? Greenwald continues:
The point here is so obvious that it makes itself. In the bolded sentence, replace the word "Arabs" with "Jews" and ask yourself: how much time would elapse before the author of such a sentence would be vehemently scorned and shunned by all decent people, formally condemned by a litany of organizations, and have his livelihood placed in jeopardy?
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