Guess what is celebrated today in Iran

**Toker** · 11-09-10, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by WickedTribe

I tend not to give people the benefit of the doubt when they toss out an ethnic slur into a long, insulting diatribe about that group of people.

haha, no doubt man....

**triggerhappy2005** · 11-09-10, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by w4jchosen

Once upon a time in a gaming community far, far away................................. We had fun gaming.

You are right sir. BF3 can't come soon enough. Let us join hands and prey.

**Rawr** · 11-09-10, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by Cojiro

Just an FYI to jb. That whole "being in California makes you less Jewish then me" (lol) was directed at deeji not me.

Ahaha I saw that and forced myself to make it through WOT #2 although I couldn't make it past like line 4 or 5 of #1. I will say that the Physics / Religion combined thing was quite interesting to read, but also quite strange.

Going back to what Dex just said (and what's been posted a bunch) I would definitely say Sand People is definitely on the list of bad words (although the Star Wars pic made me lol a bit).

**~BigTymer~** · 11-09-10, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by triggerhappy2005

Yeah, everyone listen to BigTymer and pretend your retarded.

I was wondering why everyone sees you as a dick but now I know. Nice DL and UPL

**triggerhappy2005** · 11-09-10, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by ~BigTymer~

I was wondering why everyone sees you as a dick but now I know. Nice DL and UPL

Funny you should say that. I've heard many people say that about you between rounds on CS. Many and I don't even know you.

**DJ Ms. White** · 11-09-10, 03:03 PM

Get back on topic.

**Walkerxes** · 11-09-10, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by dex71

But that is your choice.....just like I don't get pissy when someone calls me a Yankee. Plus....these are truly regional, and have nothing to do with race/ethnicity. We don't get to pick and choose what others are offended by. If it is used, and taken as a slur, we should handle it as such. People can call my German ass a Nazi or a Hun all day long, and I wouldn't be anything other than entertained....but that still doesn't make it right.

Put it this way......Could you stand in front of Vafa or Mafia (two of the nicest guys on the Planet) and refer to them as "Sand People" and think that you wouldn't be hurting their feelings or offending them? I know I couldn't, and most certainly wouldn't. Ever.

Stands and applauds.

For the record, a REGIONAL DESCRIPTION is "desert people" or "desert dweller"... someone who lives in the desert. Can anyone here HONESTLY read his initial wall of text, full of it's hate and spite, and read "sand people" in any context other than "sand nigger"? Seriously?

**~~chrono~~** · 11-09-10, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by JBMCW2010

I'm going to also add here, that a lot of what Chrono is talking about is somethings that Americans do not have the best background knowledge of. Not that everyone is ignorant but many just do not know.

He mentions in his first wall of text the history of MODERN Israel. How it got a shit end of the stick in WW2 with the Nazis, Arab persecution prior to the founding of Israel after WWII. These things are hard for many Americans to comprehend because well it doesn't concern us so we either don't care, don't know or think we know. The whole Middle East region is something that the "west" carved up. There are boarders where we thought they should go with in most cases NO input from the inhabitants of the region. For example Afghanistan/Pakistani boarder, there are tribes of nomads that live there in the mountains that do not acknowledge our lines and claim land to themselves from both countries because they had lived there for centuries w/o our interference.

That is where today's conflicts are in Israel. There are Arab Muslims and then both Arab and non-Arab Jews that hold claim to the so called Promised Land. I guess the closest thing that we Americans can see here is Manifest Destiny and even that is a perversion of it. We claimed all land East to West but there were still Native people living there. Well depending on how far back you go you have your natives. The Jews lived there turn of the Roman empire, then the Muslims came circa the 10th and 11th centuries. Crusades and Holy wars back and forth. All three of the Abrahamic traditions hold some form of claim to the region.

In the carving up we also left a group of people, the Kurds, at the middle of four different boundaries: Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq. Saddam gassed them, Turkey has banned their language and has destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages in recent history, still going on, and very recently they were proven to have used chemical weapons on the Kurds, who have had their own language banned! Syria, Iran, and Turkey all persecute these people. Read up on it, these are the mountain people, "we have no friends but the mountains" is a statement they often make, and they are under heavy persecution and ethnic cleansing. Not even the nazis banned Yiddish!

**Cojiro** · 11-09-10, 05:45 PM

banning yiddish would have kind of been a pointless thing for the nazis to do.

**~~chrono~~** · 11-09-10, 05:50 PM

To be honest what the alternative in my vocabulary for the term "sand people" would be is infidels, but many here are infidels too so I won't get into the infidel subject.