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Ah my goodness, education does not immunize people from adapting very daft racism patterns. To simply throw all Muslims in one box is beyond crazy, there are Muslims of various different races. As a non Muslim, I have experienced Muslims as some of the nicest people out there, while the loudest Christians were often the most bigoted people imaginable and the only thing Christian about them was the label.

Freedom of speech should remain firm and never infringed with, but there should always be consequences for such freedom of speech escalations.

She has no business being an educator, poisoning the minds of people with her racism.

The sack was justified, the doxxing was well deserved, if she wants to be a racist loudmouth, have the guts and show your "face". Compensation, hell no if it was for me to decide.

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I've met Muslims with the most extreme views you could imagine. Third generation immigrants raised in the Western world still believing that "white" women deserve to be raped, teaching their children to only socialise with their own kind. I'm not sure what can you get from my comment, neither do I understand what anyone could possibly get from yours.

Also, saying that someone "deserves" something says more about you than them and can some day come back and bite you on the ass.

Yeah, they happened to tell you that casually? Sure thing, some have radical and outdated views. Sometimes it takes one or two generations until immigrants come around, so what. The way forward is to include these people, make them feel welcome, institutionally and personally, if that doesn't happen, slums and ghettos arise. I still wouldn't bet that more Muslims hold this view than there are racist Christians. And yes, I maintain my view, she deserved what happened, she was ripe for the meltdown, wanted to express herself to the whole world. She should do that in her name if she is so convinced.

You simply cannot emit such verbal cacophony and expect nobody will be enraged about it.

Some of her students could be Muslims. This brings me to a sledgehammer comparison.

Should a pederast be a teacher of teenagers so long he keeps his sexual orientation clandestine?

You could transpose that worldview onto people from, oh, let's say Southern Indiana, without changing very much at all.

>there are Muslims of various different races

I've noticed that most people have trouble understanding this, regardless of political affiliation. Islamophobia is a thing. "Racism against Muslims" is not.

Racism against Middle Eastern people and islamophobia are thoroughly entangled in the US.

I agree Islamophobia is usually the more precise label, but sometimes it's also racism and sometimes rooted more in race than religion.

Ex. I think non-muslim Middle Easterners are more likely than white muslims to be accused of being terrorists by bigots.

Well, this post had just about everything. Just about the only thing missing is a screed about how there's totally no censorship or cancel culture of conservative voices. Maybe you can write that as a follow up.

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