Discussion: Muslim Lawyer To Don Lemon: Thanks For Your 'Racist, Dumb-ass Question'

chammy · January 13, 2015, 8:47pm

That was nice and well deserved

Sabreen60 · January 13, 2015, 8:51pm

Cuz CNN and the rest of the media is useless corporate owned infotainment.

jw1 · January 13, 2015, 8:57pm

I’ve pasted a copy of the original post to my troll-warning above.

jw1

rudesan · January 13, 2015, 8:57pm

Maybe there is a space missing and it’s actually “Pen is” (short for Pen is mightier than the sword)?

puppies · January 13, 2015, 8:59pm

Lemon’s question was undoubtedly stupid, offensive and dumb, but not racist. Racism is disparaging and denigrate a race different from our own for whatever reason. If we keep throwing around that word like that, it will lose its significance.

srfromgr · January 13, 2015, 9:02pm

Cable news is more damaging and a much bigger threat to America than any Islamic terror organization.

You are more correct than you realize. There is no hyperbole in that observation.

johnscotus · January 13, 2015, 9:05pm

You’re a wise man.

doremus_jessup · January 13, 2015, 9:05pm

People who espouse Manichean views reveal more about themselves than the groups they’re criticizing.

sniffit · January 13, 2015, 9:05pm

Hahaha…if only the world were a just place, shitting on Don Lemon would be a national sport.

theghostofeustacetilley · January 13, 2015, 9:08pm

BUNch OF liBtard “POLITICAL COrrectness” that IS RUINing aMERican POLitical INtercourse.

doremus_jessup · January 13, 2015, 9:09pm

“Malaysian-black-hole” I understand but I don’t get the “penis-biting” part?

Edit to add: Never mind.

grandpoobah · January 13, 2015, 9:10pm

If more people would openly, publicly call out idiots like this then maybe they would either shut up, or actually understand how stupid they are. Silence in the face of stupidity only validates the stupidity. This is right up there with “boobs on the ground” and he deserves to be publicly pilloried for it. Don’t issue a pass to these folks by remaining silent.

ronbyers · January 13, 2015, 9:12pm

Let’s see if Lemon responds. Maybe Don Lemon won’t respond because he won’t find out about the comment. Apparently he has given up reading as a waste of time. If nobody tells him, he will never know.

doctorbiobrain · January 13, 2015, 9:15pm

How does it not denigrate Muslims to assume that they might support ISIS unless they specifically say otherwise? This was a human rights lawyer. Why on earth would he possibly support ISIS? Would he ask you that question? No. Why not? After all, you’re likely not a human rights lawyer, and therefore are more likely to support ISIS than he would. But he’s Muslim and you’re not. See the problem? Unless Lemon asks this question of everyone (which he doesn’t), why would he ask a human rights lawyer that question, regardless of his religion?

How about this one: You meet a rich black businessman, and one of your first questions is to ask what he thinks about Jay Z’s new album; as if all black people listen to rap. See the problem now? If the main thing you see about someone is their race/religion, and not the fact that they’re a successful businessman or human rights lawyer…that’s racist.

alice5956 · January 13, 2015, 9:20pm

Just so y’all know, Muslims are not terrorists. Muslims, because of their faith, do not support ISIS. THAT’S what is racist about Don Lemon’s moronic interview with Arsalan Iftikhar.

When a woman is too terrified to enter an abortion clinic because the crazy, violent and threatening opponents block her way, should she assume that all Christians are violent and threatening? Should she assume that all Christians post “wanted” posters with home addresses of physicians who perform legal and safe medical procedures?

Are all Christians violent and threatening? Do all Christians shoot physicians in their homes? Do all Christians plant bombs in clinics and murder?

Odd, isn’t it, that when Muslims commit a crime, they are almost exclusively identified by their religion. Last week three men in Georgia were arrested for domestic terrorism as they allegedly plotted to bomb courthouses and other government buildings. What religion were they? Who knows.

What about the man in Pennsylvania who stalked and murdered two police and then hid in the woods for weeks? What religion is he? Do we know?

What about the followers of Cliven Bundy in Nevada? They pointed loaded automatic weapons at federal agents. Were they “Christian terrorists?”

We have far more to fear from sovereign citizens, militia crazies and gun nuts. Yet somehow, Muslims are the focus of our fears. Yeah. Could there be a smidgen of xenophobia in all of this? Yeah. There could.

snarkus_aurelius · January 13, 2015, 9:21pm

CNN is now Fox News Lite!

jw1 · January 13, 2015, 9:22pm

Out of curiosity GoET?

Just what was it about a troll–
obviously walking-back their ignorance–
by doing an Etch-A-Sketch–
that caused you to like the post?

I mean-- you, in character, on your worst day–
make more sense than the above.
I’m really hoping that might be it.

jw1

ajileye · January 13, 2015, 9:22pm

Wow! every single letter in this man’s flourish, captures my sentiments to the T. In addition, this penis-biting imbecile went there! suggesting black/Ferguson youths pull up their pants to neutralize police confrontations. Don Lemon is a model, true to Bill Cosby’s sociopathic maladjustments and projections.

theghostofeustacetilley · January 13, 2015, 9:29pm

I like and agree with the trolls.He must’ve walked back before i liked.

doctorbiobrain · January 13, 2015, 9:36pm

Oh, and I’d just like to add that this is entirely wrong. Racism isn’t just about insulting someone of another race based on their race. It’s about making assumptions about someone based on their race, period. If you’re accepting resumes and don’t offer interviews to anyone if their name sounds black or Hispanic because you assume they’re probably lazy…that’s racist, even if the people never know about it. If you hire women to be admins and men to be managers…that’s sexist, even if they never know about it. And if you hear about someone being killed and determine if they deserved it or not based on the skin color of the shooter and victim…that’s racist, even if you don’t tell anyone.

Yet people do this all the time, and don’t even see how that makes them racist at all, because they think like you do and assume racism is about insulting people. They truly believe that these stereotypes are correct, and think the rest of us are living in a PC fantasy for not acknowledging that you can use race, gender, and religion to know anything else about the person besides those superficial traits.

Yes, the most extreme example of racism is to hurt or insult others based on their race. But racism is as simple as making assumptions of someone based on their race. Or in this case, religion. Nobody would assume a human rights lawyer would support a murderous terror organization…unless the lawyer was Muslim. That’s not just dumb, it’s offensive…