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White House wants to add new racial category for Middle Eastern people
USATODAY | Oct. 1, 2016 | Gregory Korte

Posted on 10/01/2016 2:48:20 PM PDT by PROCON

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animalfarm; balkanization; democrats; factionalism; favortism; islam; muslims; obama; race; tribalism
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To: PROCON

savages!


41 posted on 10/01/2016 4:01:29 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (I)
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To: Paladin2

**** “They are Skittles. Some poisonous” ****

Some?


42 posted on 10/01/2016 4:11:08 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Sucks when EVERYTHING is Illegal and I'm too old to hold up my end!)
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To: PROCON

I think the appropriate category is Caucasian.


43 posted on 10/01/2016 4:11:58 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Graybeard58

Moops! Absolutely love it. HT George Costanza?


44 posted on 10/01/2016 4:13:35 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: exDemMom
The true Caucasians--Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, and others living in or near the Caucasus Mountains--are Middle Easterners.

Maybe they can declare "Muslim" a racial category. In Yugoslavia "Muslim" was considered an ethnic group (primarily referring to the Bosnian Muslims and the other Slavic-speaking Muslims, since there was a separate category for the Albanians).

If Middle Eastern becomes a race, how much Middle Eastern ancestry does one need to qualify for racial preferences? Would the one drop rule apply?

According to FamilyTreeDNA, I have 7% Middle Eastern ancestry. This probably dates back to the Neolithic period--immigrants from the Middle East are thought to have brought agriculture to Europe. But that DNA test may be a good investment if I can start benefiting from the government's racial preferences game.

45 posted on 10/01/2016 4:13:48 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: PROCON

When someone says criticizing Muslims or Islam is not racist because it is not a race, now the feds want to essentially make it such.


46 posted on 10/01/2016 4:19:14 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: GreenLanternCorps

Actually Spaniards and Portuguese are placed in he Latino/Hispanic category even though they are European and very much the same as Italians, French etc.i e European caucasians.And North Africans are not categorized as African Americans. Some years ago one of my 8th graders in Queens was pure blood Egyptian, daughterof Egyptian immigrants. She wanted a specific high school program where preferences were give to hispanics and african americans. i told her mom to indicate african american on the application. She was turned down because the powersvgat be said the term could only apply to blacks.


47 posted on 10/01/2016 4:19:39 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Alberta's Child

48 posted on 10/01/2016 4:20:14 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Paladin2

I like “Small Pieces.”


49 posted on 10/01/2016 4:21:43 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Conservatives own 200,000,000 guns and a trillion rounds of ammo. If we were violent you'd know it.)
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To: PROCON

The environmentalits been exceptionally busy with doing the same thing with animals, dividing one species that interbreeds successfully but isn’t endangered into 6 or 7 new ones with superficial differences — all of which are then defined as endangered and worthy of special research funding and protected status.
It’s like claiming people with freckles are a different race from people without freckles.


50 posted on 10/01/2016 4:24:10 PM PDT by piasa
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To: Enchante

LOL!


51 posted on 10/01/2016 4:27:47 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: PROCON

Just call them what they are Islamic Muslims.


53 posted on 10/01/2016 4:30:57 PM PDT by caww
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To: PROCON

How about “Targets”?


54 posted on 10/01/2016 4:33:52 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Why is it no one ever discusses the rabid Amerophobia which infects Islam and its adherents?)
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To: PROCON

He wants a new race for ME people so he, and the Democrat party can legitimately call us deplorables racists.


55 posted on 10/01/2016 4:34:27 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (America IS sick, and tired of the Clintons. It's time to say goodbye.)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

Over the years I have had several people from Japan and Taiwan say that Arabs and Persians most certainly are “white.”


56 posted on 10/01/2016 4:34:57 PM PDT by untenured
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To: PROCON

Obama wants to make them a ‘race’ for legal reasons: civil rights, etc. That’s it.


57 posted on 10/01/2016 4:42:53 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: PROCON
Under the proposal, the new Middle East and North African designation — or MENA, as it's called by population scholars — is broader in concept than Arab (an ethnicity) or Muslim (a religion). It would include anyone from a region of the world stretching from Morocco to Iran, and including Syrian and Coptic Christians, Israeli Jews and other religious minorities.

Really?

Iranians and Syrians are the same as Israeli Jews?

Ok, using that obviously intellectually superior logic I am now offically a Texas-American.

I expect to have my unique cultural aspects and beliefs absolutely respected and if they are not I will become extremely offended and must be allowed to express my outrage as I see fit.

I will only live subject to Texas Law no matter where I go and must be allowed my cultural practices without any degree of interference whatsoever.

If anyone or thing violates these cultural practices they shall be subject to punishment of my specification within the guidelines of Texas civil and criminal law.

Oh yes, one more thing, everyone in my neighborhood is self-policing, therefor there is no need for local law enforcement to patrol there and outsiders (non Texas-Americans) are not to enter the neighborhood.

.

58 posted on 10/01/2016 5:07:27 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: TLI

You better check your white privilege, Tex :-)


59 posted on 10/01/2016 5:09:36 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: Verginius Rufus

more than Lizzie Warren has Indian


60 posted on 10/01/2016 5:19:35 PM PDT by hecht (america 9/11, Israel 24/7)
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