aight look when i said plaid shirt, i wasn't literally saying wearing a plaid shirt negates the possibility of you being a terrorist
i meant that who he is, aside from being muslim, shows he's not an extremist. he's a muslim american teen who made a clock. for bill maher to say that "his culture blows stuff up", therefore it's all right to treat him like a terrorist, is basically saying that the extremists of your ethnicity and religion shape who you are, and that's just ignorant. i've yet to see any evidence that he could possibly be an extremist (because usually is evidence, most people don't just decide one day they're gonna be a terrorist)
bill maher isn't wrong all the time, but the more i grow up and become less of a blind bay area liberal, the more i see that maher is kinda just the bill o reilly of the left.
Muslim boy carrying a thing that looks a fair bit like it could be a bomb. Boy, I wonder what the immediate conclusion from that would be.
what about a backpack then? most people don't just carry bombs openly, they put em in bags. i see tons of muslim and/or arab people walking around my campus with backpacks, should i be worried each time i see one, even though clearly they're just a person with a backpack?
