# Congrats, yer a hysterical bigot, lady, righty radio & lefty media both proud

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**Created:** [July 21, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-yer-a-hysterical-bigot-lady-righty-radio-lefty-media-both-proud/256137 "2004-07-21T04:27:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![LilShieste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@LilShieste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilShieste)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congrats-yer-a-hysterical-bigot-lady-righty-radio-lefty-media-both-proud/256137/81 "2004-07-27T05:13:45Z")

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I heard this on the radio, coming back from St. Louis a couple of weeks ago. (Normally I listen to NPR, but I heard this story on some right-wing show… or so it seemed).

Before I say anything else, I want to say: _several_ times, when hearing her story, did I find myself saying “well, that seems too exagerrated to be the ‘full story’.” Overall, by the end of the radio show, I figured she probably overreacted, and actively (if subconsciously) drew some false conclusions.

Now that that’s out there, I feel I need to address this, from the very beginning of the thread:

> [@Apos](#):
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> > [@Standup Karmic](#):
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> > If I had observed what she observed, and it occured the way she relates it, I’d have been a bit nervous as well. Had they all been white, I probably would have found it equally as unusual and suspicious.
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> Since this is the Pit, I think I’m going to call you a fucking liar, you fucking liar.

Speaking of jumping to conclusions… while they might be uncommon to encounter, there are some people - myself included - who _would_ be just as equally unsettled, had the “suspicious” passengers been white. Calling people like this “fucking liars” obviously serves no purpose, other than some kind of weird self-gratification (I guess… that is, I hope _someone_ gets _something_ out of it).

I agree that there are a lot of people who would overreact, and start going through dozens of scenarios in their heads once they see a group of Syrians, or arabs, or \<insert other racial profile here\>. I completely agree that this is wrong, and unfair to the “suspicious” passengers. Racial profiling = bad juju. And, as **ElvisL1ves** said:

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> Or perhaps profiling should be behavioral instead of racial? Just perhaps?

A great big AMEN to that.

And finally…

> [@imthjckaz](#):
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> Maybe mouthing the word “No” was a short for “Dude, do not go in there! I just took the biggest crap. Oh man, if you value your olfactory senses, you will not go in there!”

That _exact_ same thought went through my mind, when I was listening to this on the radio.

LilShieste

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