I need to take a shower now

[sabotabby]

This article on the links between old school anti-Semitism and modern Islamophobia has been making the rounds, so you should read it too. I still can't believe the community centre thing is a Thing. Of course, a mosque was a Thing in my home town, but I foolishly didn't believe that widespread ignorance and smallmindedness extended to New York City.

Anyway, contrary to Beck's assertion that there are black people in his movement, check out the most monochromatic rally in NYC ever and what happens when a black guy gets caught in it:

"The Neverending Story: Ygramul the Many | Stratford Festival 2019" (Watch on YouTube)

On a related note, apocalypsos brings us this hilarious set of instructions for Teabaggers deigning to ride the DC Metro with the unwashed masses:

If you are on the subway stay on the Red line between Union Station and Shady Grove, Maryland. If you are on the Blue or Orange line do not go past Eastern Market (Capitol Hill) toward the Potomac Avenue stop and beyond; stay in NW DC and points in Virginia. Do not use the Green line or the Yellow line. These rules are even more important at night. There is of course nothing wrong with many other areas; but you don't know where you are, so you should not explore them.

Comments

[poetic-pixie-13.livejournal.com]

So I missed the thing in Newmarket when it happened. Reading the article now makes it sound lovely. -_-

The unabashed racism and Islamophobia in these attacks is disgusting. Of course, a lot of people making a ruckus about this don't even live in NYC. Like my girlfriend's mother and brother, who live in Michigan. I can't.

[dubaiwalla.livejournal.com]

That wasn't even the most bizarre part of the Teabag instructions:

DC's population includes refugees from every country, as the families of embassy staffs of third world countries tend to stay in DC whenever a revolution in their homeland means that anyone in their family would be in danger if they went back. Most taxi drivers and many waiters/waitresses (especially in local coffee shops like the Bread and Chocolate chain) are immigrants, frequently from east Africa or Arab countries. As a rule, African immigrants do not like for you to assume they are African Americans and especially do not like for you to guess they are from a neighboring country (e.g. Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia) with whom they may have political or military tensions. It's rare to meet anyone who gets really offended, but you can still be aware of the issue.

Then the nutjob who wrote all that showed up in the comments section.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Hatred is this summer's hot hobby.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

To be fair, and you know how I love to be fair, most of them are not from New York. There are a few, but there are a few of absolutely everything in New York.

[numb3r-5ev3n.livejournal.com]

The capper on that poor guy getting caught in the rally? A teabagger's later assertion that, 'the left will use this incident to try and make us look racist!' Yeah because they so don't have they covered all on their own.

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

This is one of the more entertaining responses I've seen to the whole controversy.

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

I just learned that I'm going to be in DC the day of the Glenn Back rally. FUUUUUUUU (but I use the Yellow line, so hopefully I can avoid these fuckers. ~thanks visitor's guide~)