496
New York woman who pepper-sprayed Muslim Uber driver indicted for hate crime
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024
496 points (99.0% liked)
News
23287 readers
3792 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Someone speaks foreign language
“Gasp! My life in in danger. I have been personally threatened.”
Making shit up online is fun. Strawman arguments don't convince anyone of anything though just makes you look like a tool.
Islam is the 2nd largest religion on Earth. It's not some piddly minority. When people are being weird Muslims it's okay to call them out the same way there are hella weird Christians and Jews. I would say NOT doing so and handling a particular groups weirdos with kids gloves is just as xenophobic (but obviously not as harmful) as attacking someone for being different.
You're basically saying they are less human than you and therefor should be excused from behaving normally in the society they are a part of, like they were a small child.
*kid gloves
They're called kid gloves because they're made from baby goat.
The leather from baby goats is soft and supple and gives you more dexterity than normal leather gloves. If you were handling something that needed great care, you might want to wear kid gloves to have greater manual control.
Why would you handle someone with kids' gloves? Are your hands very tiny?
There's nothing abnormal about speaking a foreign language or praying. For all you know, he could have been praying for a safe journey.
(Or praying for the endurance to put up with a shitty passenger.)
Read my responses for the answer, pedant.
There is something abnormal about praying in a workplace. They shouldn't be attacked, but it's also not normal. I don't care what religion they're a part of, it would be strange regardless.
How other people pray is none of your business. You don't get to decide what is "normal". If other peoples' prayers upset you, then you can die mad for all I care.
I don't have to decide what is normal. I can experience what is normal. I don't get mad when people pray, I just don't like it done in front of me while I am trapped in a small space with them.
So what you're saying is that you get mad when people pray.
No... I get annoyed when people put me in position where I have no reason to expect them to start praying, and the only method of distancing myself from that act would be extraordinary inconvenient for me.
Pray 20 hours a day for all I care, to whatever God you want. Leave me out of it.
Unless I'm paying them to take me somewhere, then it's definitely my business why they aren't doing that.
Shit is rarely just black and white as much as we'd all like that to be the case.
What an absolutely awful person you are...
If other people's cultures and religions offend you, stay inside and remain alone, for all of our sakes.
Who said anything about offended? Now piss off concern troll.