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What It Feels Like to Watch Donald Trump as a Brown Person
Cosmopolitan ^ | December 10, 2015 | Prachi Gupta

Posted on 12/10/2015 12:07:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

As an Indian woman, the "ban all Muslims" debate is terrifying and sad.

My grandfather moved to Canada from India in the mid-1960s, when black people were marching through America's streets demanding rights they never should have had to ask for. Dadaji was not sure where Indians fit into America's racial struggle. Like many immigrants coming to the West, he had escaped a childhood of poverty and was looking to raise his kids some place where they wouldn't have to fight so hard to make a good living. He was considering moving to America from Canada, but before he uprooted my grandmother and their three children again, he visited a few restaurants in America as a litmus test for how brown people might be treated there. Americans were ruder, service was slower, and he was stared at more. So he remained in the suburbs of Toronto, where he has lived ever since....

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: canada; muslims; racism; trump
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So everyone in journalism has been assigned to write a negative hit-piece on Trump, down to the mailroom and custodial staff?
1 posted on 12/10/2015 12:07:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t care what university you went to.


2 posted on 12/10/2015 12:08:50 PM PST by thorvaldr
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Didn’t India sorta ban muslims? What’s that Pakistan thingie?


3 posted on 12/10/2015 12:09:53 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It won’t end until non-minorities are silenced and marginalized.


4 posted on 12/10/2015 12:10:03 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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Dadaji was not sure where Indians fit into America's racial struggle.

No John Wayne movies in Punjab?

5 posted on 12/10/2015 12:11:07 PM PST by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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The agenda is to disenfranchise white people from the public sphere.

Until the mainstream of America is cowed, these cretinous savages will not get traction.


6 posted on 12/10/2015 12:12:05 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is terrifying and sad that Islam produces murderous haters and bigots; supremacists and totalitarians; and that we have some amongst us.


7 posted on 12/10/2015 12:12:15 PM PST by ecomcon
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To: thorvaldr

That is what I was thinking. Who cares about these Ivy Leaguers! Go back to Rhode Island!


8 posted on 12/10/2015 12:12:54 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump didn’t say ‘Ban all Muslims,’ he said stop the flow temporarily, but I never assumed it would be told truthfully anyway.


9 posted on 12/10/2015 12:15:46 PM PST by 11th_VA
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2ndDivisionVet - Attack Trump! Attack Trump! Attack Trump


10 posted on 12/10/2015 12:16:12 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (2ndDivisionVet - Attack Trump! Attack Trump! Attack Trump!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m really fed up with our diverse collection of multi-hued whiners.


11 posted on 12/10/2015 12:17:18 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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Waiting for the piece “What it’s like to watch brown people as a white person”.


12 posted on 12/10/2015 12:17:42 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Funny, I happen to know several Indians (dot, not feather), and they pretty much universally support Trump’s sentiment. It’s not a religious test, it’s an acknowledgement that Islam has been showing over and over lately that it isn’t compatible with Western civilization, and a new solution needs to be found).

And Pakistan was largely a voluntary segregation action by the Muslims, who wanted their own place separate from the majority-Hindu population of India (many apparently now regret that based on the results, and wish they could re-integrate with India).


13 posted on 12/10/2015 12:18:02 PM PST by Little Pig
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That’s just bizarre.


14 posted on 12/10/2015 12:18:44 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve dealt with my share of Indians/Pakis. They are arrogant, bitter, and deceitful people. Let me explain.

Arrogant - if they had the wherewithal to move to the West, they would be considered well off in India/Pakistan, usually with servants. They treat westerners as if we are their servants, hence the arrogance.

Bitter - because we reject their arrogance they become shocked and bitter.

Deceitful - if you pay an Indian/Paki merchant for something in cash, always count your change. For many, short-changing customers is part of doing business.


15 posted on 12/10/2015 12:19:20 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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he visited a few restaurants in America as a litmus test for how brown people might be treated there. Americans were ruder, service was slower, and he was stared at more.

there is a recourse DON'T TIP.

16 posted on 12/10/2015 12:19:42 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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The Indian Gandhi, who opened that actual assault of the Third World on the West influenced the so called "civil Rights" movement in America. Gandhi with bestial cunning took advantage of Western exhaustion to lead a Third World assault on the West./p>
17 posted on 12/10/2015 12:20:15 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As an “Indian woman”, you failed to read and comprehend what Trump means.

By the way, it was a Muslim who whacked Gandhi.


18 posted on 12/10/2015 12:20:16 PM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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The dirty little secret is, the Indians hate whites as much as they all do.

Read up on the Caste System, where Europeans are regarded as “untouchables”, or outcasts, beneath contempt and not even worthy of live-saving medicine.


19 posted on 12/10/2015 12:21:29 PM PST by Old Sarge
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he visited a few restaurants in America as a litmus test for how brown people might be treated there. Americans were ruder, service was slower, and he was stared at more.

White patron is treated that way: the waiter is having a bad day or is really busy.

Black/brown patron: The waiter is a racist pig.

20 posted on 12/10/2015 12:21:42 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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