Calling an Arab a terrorist is a racist slur
Summary
An anonymous rider wants "terrorist" classified as a racial slur when it's directed at Arabs. Not just offensive, but an actual slur. He tells Kareem that a Finnish friend recently called him the T-word as a joke, though it didn't bother him that much. The conversation veers into what he calls "the war on hummus," where everyone's fighting over credit for a 10,000-year-old food. He's clear: hummus is Palestinian. Kareem agrees on one thing, at least. Sabra is the worst brand of hummus.
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So, what's your take? Calling an Arab a terrorist is a racist slur. 100% agree. It's just a catch-all phrase at this point. I think most people would agree with you, perhaps, but it still gets used in certain ways, which I find problematic.
You think it's classified as an offensive insult, but you would like to classify it as literally a racial slur? Yes. Like a hate crime? I think it, it could be a hate crime.
When's the last time you were called a T-word? Actually, not that long ago. But naturally, naturally, it was like someone who's supposed to be a friend. Someone who was supposed to be a friend called you.
Yeah, yeah. Were they saying it in jest? Yeah, but you got upset.
I didn't really get that upset. So you're saying amongst friends we can throw it around? Like me and you could throw it around.
Oh, me and you guys. Like it's for us? Yeah. Obviously, you're saying that the T-word is for guys like us?
Yeah. This was like a white little Finnish person. A Finnish. Yeah, yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. It was weird.
Anyway, yeah. I mean, it doesn't, it doesn't happen a lot to me anymore, per se, but more I'm talking about more socially, like in the news and stuff. Oh, on the news. Yeah, there's a war on hummus too.
What's the war on hummus? The war on hummus is largely an identity crisis, but everyone's trying to take credit for something that's existed longer than most these places have existed. It's 10,000 years old. I am here to say the hummus is Palestinian, though.
I'm here to say that Sabra is the worst brand of hummus. Wait, Sabra is the worst brand of hummus? It's, it's disgusting.
All right. Well, don't say the T-word around him. Yeah, I guess you can still say it around me. I'm cool.