As the shooting news broke today, the fundie freak lady at work said "It was probably an Arab."

[marmar]

Needless to say, several colleagues and I ripped into her good and offered a historical rundown of who has been responsible for most of the mass shootings in this country. She shut the f**k up after that, put her headphones on and listened to Rush. Normally I feel bad about ganging up on someone, but not today.
:nopity:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. File a complaint.

Racism's a pretty serious issue in the workplace.

[geardaddy]

5. Unless you work for Clear Channel. n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. Heh. I've wondered about that.

I'd think Clear Channel's minority employee's have some solid ground for a lawsuit.

[onenote]

2. and someone on DU posted a poll asking if he was a repub

Idiocy abounds after things like this.

[enid602]

3. stress

There's a lot of disgruntled and stressed Rebulicans these days; could have been one of them.

[Orrex]

4. Did she pronounce it AY-rab, by any chance?

Wouldn't surprise me.

[durtee librul]

6. Same thing I overheard in 7/11 getting a soda

must have been an ayrab......

Sheesh.

[wtmusic]

7. Never feel guilty about trashing a fundie freak

How are they ever gonna learn? :shrug:

[edbermac]

9. I would have replied "Wasn't Hitler a Christian?"

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. They would come back with the "No True Scotsman" fallacy

They would say Hitler wasn't a "true Christian". Logical fallacy.
Hitler's Nazi belt buckles said "God is with us".

WW I German (Prussian) helmets had an eagle metal plate on them and a banner in the design that said "For God with the Kaiser and the Fatherland".

[lazyriver]

10. Our resident fundie said something similar

that I won't repeat verbatim due to the total classlessness of the remark. Let's just say he assumed a person of Middle Eastern descent was responsible and condemned all of academia while referring to the case of the Middle Eastern student who was admitted to Yale last year. He and I might come to blows before this day is out...

[MichaelHarris]

11. I was never really one to speculate

but since someone else opened the door my money is on pissed off student who got a bad grade. Now my long-shot bet would be returning Iraq soldier going, "a little funny in the head" returning to school and getting a letter he has to redeploy.

[durtee librul]

14. Got one better for y'all

one of the people in our office (not an employee, just a vendor) said that since most of the students there were either Indian or Asian that maybe a few American engineering jobs might be saved now.

Pretty sad huh? You can't even respond at first when you hear comments like that as they catch you so off guard.... :sad:

[Red Zelda]

13. Let me guess...

she's a fat, white, christian, mouth-breathing bitch. Right? Hey - I know her.
She drives 5 mph on every Central Pa. road.

[marmar]

17. Well, she's not fat...

n/t

[LeftishBrit]

15. Scary; 'always blame the Other for whatever happens'

Bush has done his work well here.

[Marrah_G]

16. She's lucky she didn't work in my office or she would be out of a job.

[Speck Tater]

18. Either a Christian Republican or an Atheist Commie Liberal

In other words, in every community where there is an "us vs. them" mentality, INCLUDING DU, it's always assumed to be somebody from the "them" category". Don't ever expect real objectivity, tolerance and respect of diversity in venues as heavily biased as Freeperville or DU. We are, after all, true believers in the innate superiority of "our kind" of people, and the innate degeneracy of "them".

[treestar]

21. You're right; how many of us would have the first thought that it was

a freeper?

Wasn't there an faux anthrax case recently where it was even true?

[Javaman]

19. My first thought was that it was a pissed off student...

not far off the mark.

Those poor people. :(

[orleans]

20. ugh. sorry to hear you have to work with assholes like that. n/t

[treestar]

22. Went to freepville

Only took seven responses to get to:

To: Perdogg
I’m just wondering if it’s a “muslim”..........



8 posted on 04/16/2007 7:19:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)