Here the Catholics have Asian eyes or darker skins ~ they're all from SE Asia in fact. Trying real hard to think of a traditional European type who is a Catholic but I think the last of their kind moved away 20 years ago.
Biggest problem in the local public school has always been the blue-eyed blonds from Afghanistan who will lie about the time of day unless you tell them first "unless you are truthful it will bring shame on your father". A Russian friend of mine assures me that you have to say ".... and his father, and his father, and his father, and his father" and finally that'll get their attention.
*sigh* I am abundantly aware that islam is a so-called religion not a race.
I am abundantly aware that koranimals come in every imaginable shape, size, color, nationality, and for all I know, species.
(FWIW, I used to work for a Desi who was Roman Catholic, I rilly, rilly get it that religious belief and practice are only loosely coupled to ethnic background and, for want of a better word, race. I also know that even the darkest complected Pakistani is, in an ethnological sense, every bit as Caucasian as my pale skinned European ancestors)
Give me a word to use here? I want a word designed specifically to provoke a knee jerk revulsion and rejection of everything the speaker says, does or stands for. Bigoted and prejudiced don’t carry the emotional punch that calling someone racist does. They are too intellectual.
Gimme a word that bitch-slaps the one it’s directed at, and I’d gladly use it instead of the much less accurate ‘racist’.
BTW, since I wasn’t trying to bitch-slap you, I probably should have softened it with a ;^P or a < /sarc> tag...
Alexander the Great had blonde hair, or so says Colin what’s his name.