"The popular habit of connecting and labeling everything Arab or Palestinian to terrorism, intolerence and evil is a dangerous road to walk down."
Imaan Ali
"If they haven’t really changed their own lifestyle, we will see right through their green-tinted surface to their material lifestyle, and won’t be inclined to follow their lead. Why should we?"
For a while I kept quiet about it, but then I realized the root of why I was offended. Family Guy isn’t edgy and it isn’t controversial. It’s using our desire to push the envelope against us. Family Guy is the most socially conservative thing out there.
Campuses are attempting to treat everyone equally. In doing so, however, the minority groups tend to be isolated and the Caucasian majority is left out, causing inequality.
Perhaps we do use these derogatory terms as a mental crutch of sorts – a fruitless effort of developing some sort of quasi-understanding of a subject so unknown to many of us that we have no other means of trying to simplify it.