Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

But not less prone to posting things to stir up shit.

No, this heavily edited comedy video is not representative of the average American, nor should it be taken as such. In my place of work I'd say only 20% of people I know support these kinds of ideas.

20%!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!! One of my jobs is on a Military Post. I could find maybe 1% of the people who think that way.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

20%!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!! One of my jobs is on a Military Post. I could find maybe 1% of the people who think that way.

In a building where several thousand IT workers feel as if they are under constant threat of job loss due to outsourcing, a lot of interesting hate directed at foreigners develops when you dump in more than 1,000 H1Bs from other countries who follow different beliefs and barely speak English. Force them to interact under harsh deadlines, and it often gets ugly. In my old group of 12, there were three people who were very vocal about their desire for laws that would ship off every single non-citizen and lock up every Muslim for the security of our country. In my current group there are not as many who voice those opinions while on the job (less than five out of a room of 41), but some of the chatter at the bar suggests the ideas are just as strong and just as prevalent.

I don't talk politics over beer with co-workers, anymore. Ever.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

In a building where several thousand IT workers feel as if they are under constant threat of job loss due to outsourcing, a lot of interesting hate directed at foreigners develops when you dump in more than 1,000 H1Bs from other countries who follow different beliefs and barely speak English. Force them to interact under harsh deadlines, and it often gets ugly. In my old group of 12, there were three people who were very vocal about their desire for laws that would ship off every single non-citizen and lock up every Muslim for the security of our country. In my current group there are not as many who voice those opinions while on the job (less than five out of a room of 41), but some of the chatter at the bar suggests the ideas are just as strong and just as prevalent.

I don't talk politics over beer with co-workers, anymore. Ever.

Sounds pretty harsh.

[queequeger]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

20%!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!! One of my jobs is on a Military Post. I could find maybe 1% of the people who think that way.

Well, despite what many think, the military is actually quite well informed (on the whole) of Muslims, Iraqis, Afghanis etc. This might have something to do with the fact that after a while, the brass finally figured out that you can't fight an insurgency if your soldiers think that all the civilians are bad guys. All that does is cause a bigger rift. There are pamphlets all over the place called campy things like 'Islam and You!'