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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Daughter of two extremely unreligious Muslims here who immigrated to the US. While we are not religious, we have a very clear religious last name. As September 11th was happening, one of my dad's coworkers walked up to him in front of everyone and slapped him blaming him for the attacks. Someone else defaced and vandalized his car. My dad is the sweetest man in the world with zero hate in his heart. He's a proud American who loves this country and his worked tirelessly his entire life here in support of it. My youngest sister was 5 when 9/11 happened and I can't even begin to tell you how badly she was bullied at school after the attacks—physically, mentally, and emotionally. My parents had to pull her out of school for a bit until things settled down. And this was in the first grade, with a lot of the hate towards her being taught by parents to their kids at home.

Fast forward to this year and Trump's candidacy. I'm legitimately (and extremely) worried that what happened after 9/11 will happen to our family again any day now. These two latest attacks on Muslim Americans terrify me to my core and as an American citizen, as a human being, I should not be made to feel this way in my own home country.

Jeff, thank you for doing your part and for deleting the hate filled threads. It makes this little corner of the Internet feel a lot more safe and I for one am grateful of all you do to keep it that way.[/quote]

Some people are assholes, even some people in the US. I've been bullied, punched, picked on, laughed at, but I see it clearly that these are the actions of individuals here in the US.

Fast forward to Trump's candidacy, I don't see how his proposed policies will make your life harder or more dangerous. While two attacks on Muslim Americans is sad, lets not blow this out of proportion - there is no epidemic of violence against Muslim Americans in the US. Based on hate crime statistics, Jewish hate crime victims out-number Muslim hate crime victims by over 3 times. There were in fact more Asian hate crime victims than Muslim hate crime victims. Your fears are irrational, and it's sad that you see fit to leverage your fears to silence others. [/quote]

PP here. It's people like you who make me afraid of what the future holds. How dare you attempt to trivialize my experiences and my feelings without walking even half a step in my shoes. My fears are very rational and are rooted in real events and experiences that have happened to my family. Despite your repeated ignorant posts, I don't wish any of my experiences on you and I hope you never have to hear or witness the things I have. Enjoy life in your bubble but don't ever try to diminish what another person has gone through and how they feel.[/quote]

It really seems you are not reading what you are replying to. As I said "I've been bullied, punched, picked on, laughed at..." It was tough growing up as a kid from a communist country here in the states in the early 80's. Even people who looked like me didn't tolerate me: South Korean kids picked on me because China supported the wrong side in the Korean war, Taiwanese kids didn't like me because they are the one true China, Hongkong/Cantonese people looked down on us because they considered themselves a part of UK. There were very very few other mainland Chinese kids in the US back then. So while I have not walked any steps in your shoes, neither have you mine. But the point here is not about our individual experiences because those are anecdotal. Fact of the matter is, there is no evidence of widespread systemic problem of hate crimes against Muslims or Asians here in the US. The data simply does not support that claim. You are free to feel as you wish, and I am free to point out that your fears are irrational. I hope we can have a constructive dialogue rather than let this devolve into a dismissive exchange of "you don't understand because you are not one of us". [/quote]

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