I found the following statement when looking at comments on "Should Juan Williams have been fired?" by Adam Serwer in the Washington Post. His was a reprehensible article with a great deal of invective against Juan and Fox News and Ruport Murdoch. The following, however, represents the views of many people, especially his last comment that we fear all because we cannot identify those who are dangerous.
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I did not see this live or in a clip. However reading the exerpts, it appears Williams was stating a personal fear. If he feels that way, I guess the message is that he should keep it to himself. Or is the message that he is not permitted to feel how he feels? If he had said that when he is in a bar and sees a "bubba wearing a confederate flag hat" having a drink, or in the south and sees a white cop approaching him on the street, he gets worried or nervous -- would that be biggoted if he really feels that way? In any event, I doubt NPR would fire him for it no matter how ill-advised or unpopular such a statement would be. Political correctness?? I recommend the adjective "extremist" always be used in front of muslims when talking about terrorists. But I fear the average person has a difficult time identifying which are the extremist muslims, the violent bubbas or the biggoted cops just by looking at them. So I suspect a lot of people get nervous or worried without a valid cause and I do not believe all of them are bigots.
Posted by: HopeNeverDies | October 21, 2010 12:01 PM | Report abuse
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