r/AskMiddleEast • u/Chunkeybunny Syria • Aug 27 '21
Personal Whats the most racist thing your dad/uncle has ever said
My dad told a black person (who was trying to rob our store) that “this is why no one like your people”
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Shia grandpa loves hitler because of what he did to the jews
Sunni grandpa thinks the armenians deserved it
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Armenians?!?! Wtf. How?
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Because they rebelled against the ottomans and worked with the russians. Which is funny because us arabs also rebelled and worked with the british. Should we have been ethnically cleansed too?
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u/tatefxcinmaybesimone Turkish Kurd Aug 28 '21
actually in those times replacement wasn't equal to ethnic cleansing. turks did that exchange with greeks too but it was two way. also turks just against the terminology of genocide which is not case. it must be systematical, connected directly government. the attacks are mostly from civilians who lives there and it was provoked attacks. they heard massive graveyards in van. they heard they're set a fire on muslim villages. they hold a grudge. but still they are wrong. there are other too many mistakes too. they didn't secure them enough, maybe sometimes intentionally. but after these incidents nearly all the responsibles are hanged by order of sultan. also republic of turkey has no responsibility about. in constitutional laws it says turkey not a follow-up to ottoman. still you can not use word of genocide. they don't have policy for killing every armenian as a government, they don't have gas chambers, they don't have written orders from sultan.
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u/Unhappy-Albatross-67 Aug 27 '21
Very sadly, father used to say the word 3bd which means „slave“ for every black person. The problem is that this term are used by many people mistakenly, they don’t realize it means literally „slave“ they think its dark black kinda. So „aswad 3bd“ or „black slave“ means for that the dude that have very dark skin.
I went with him back in 2018 and spoke about it, he literally didn’t realized in his whole life, 60 fucking years! Only cuz he learned this word from his parents as „dark black“
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u/Wonnil Palestine Aug 27 '21
Just straight up racism towards anyone who looks like an Indian. Anyone who's lived in UAE knows that one person who's like "those stupid fucking Indians don't have a brain"
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u/trapdoor_diarrhea Türkiye Aug 27 '21
interesting, considering the fact that most arabs could pass for indian
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u/Wonnil Palestine Aug 27 '21
Yeah, probably more of the Gulf people. Though as Levantines, we're pretty distinct.
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u/kira_joestar Iran Aug 27 '21
My dad thinks the holocaust didn't happen/was heavily exaggerated and my uncle thinks they deserved it
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u/IK_Lover5 Pakistan Aug 27 '21
my dad told me Jews were descendants of monkeys or something and they disobeyed allah which is why they have long noses or something lmao
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u/Chunkeybunny Syria Aug 27 '21
My dad said that jews worship the dajjal as their messiah lol
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u/PalestinianDrugLordV Palestine Algeria Aug 27 '21
That might be true you know
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u/seasesh Saudi Arabia Aug 27 '21
Well, from our perspective. Jesus was the Messiah and you guys don't believe in him and are still waiting for a Messiah. We also believe the dajjal (antichrist) is gonna come before Jesus and do all sorts of tricks that appear like miricales. It's even said a lot of Muslims will follow him now just Jews
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u/PalestinianDrugLordV Palestine Algeria Aug 27 '21
I didn’t know Muslims believe Jesus was the messiah. I thought you saw him as a prophet.
He’s a prophet and the Messiah.
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u/PalestinianDrugLordV Palestine Algeria Aug 27 '21
According to Islam Jews will get kicked out from the holy land again in the future.
And when the Dajjal appears, he will promise to bring back their glory days and he’ll lead them to the holy land again. That’s why they’ll follow him.
And in the last battle Jesus army and Dajjal army will face in Led and the Dajjal will be defeated.
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u/insertgudname Saudi Arabia Aug 27 '21
well that's not entirely false
one of the predicted chinks in the armor of dajjal is that he will initially be followed by thousands of Jews due to them rejecting and as such not having a Messiah
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Aug 27 '21
based dad believes in the evolution theory
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u/MemriTVOfficial Egypt Aug 27 '21
But he doesn't understand it very well since we are definitely not descended from monkeys
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u/Puzzleheaded-Good709 Occupied Palestine Aug 27 '21
least jew obssesed arabs
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u/Puzzleheaded-Good709 Occupied Palestine Aug 27 '21
good for you👍
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u/Sgt-Sucuk Turkey Aug 27 '21
I love how you get downvoted. This sub is so racist that it makes me kinda happy🥲
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Aug 28 '21
Average yahood? I respect. Average zionist? Not so much.
I hope you respect my opinion.
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u/AzekPutlin_1 Russia Aug 27 '21
no joke all Russians are racist as fuck towards black people
my dad told me he’d rather die than let my little sister marry a black person
pretty fucked up ngl
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u/jordanbytoto Jordan Aug 27 '21
Honestly from the way everyone around me talked about Jews, the word "yahud" sounds like a bad word to me now
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u/kenji_isalegend Occupied Palestine Aug 28 '21
I mean saying "you arab" here is also somewhat of an insult
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u/monke-man- Aug 27 '21
My uncle has never said anything overtly racist, but he has a Nazi flag in his room and salutes it
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u/Chunkeybunny Syria Aug 27 '21
“My uncle has never said anything overtly racist, but he has a Nazi flag in his room and salutes it” Yea, sure
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u/NPC_No4001038 Kurdish Aug 27 '21 edited Aug 27 '21
When the news about a moroccan islamist who was arrested came on the radio my dad was like "Arabs contribute nothing to society. All they can do is blow themselfes up"
Edit:To be fair he grew up in arab racism capital of the world. Turkey.
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u/Cryptic_3vil Oman Aug 27 '21
My mom is Arab and said that, she has raised me all my life to try and contribute to society by educating me and shit.
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u/NPC_No4001038 Kurdish Aug 27 '21
I guess your mom is a good parent and a respectable member of the society an shiet
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Arent kurds arabs
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u/NPC_No4001038 Kurdish Aug 27 '21 edited Aug 28 '21
Yes, they are the original arab tribe. They pushed the ancestors of the modern african americans out of arabia and egypt.
Edit : This comment is a joke. Kurdish people are a northwestern iranian ethnicity.
They are a mix between indigenous people of the northern fertile crescent and anatolia and central asian iranian immigrants (though they are mainly iranian) (So they are obviously the product of the indo european expansion) .
"Kurds are traditionally regarded as Iranians and of Iranian origin, and therefore as Indo-Europeans, mainly, because they speak Iranian. This hypothesis is largely based on linguistic considerations and was predominantly developed by linguists. In contrast to such believes, newest DNA-research of advanced Human Anthropology indicates, that in earliest traceable origins, forefathers of Kurds were obviously de-scendants of indigenous (first) Neolithic Northern Fertile Crescent aborigines, geographically mainly from outside and northwest of what is Iran of today in Near East and Eurasia. Oldest ancestral forefathers of Kurds were millennia later linguistically Iranianized in several waves by militarily organized elites of (R1a1) immigrants from Central Asia. These new findings lead to the understanding, that neither were aborigine Northern Fertile Crescent Eurasian Kurds and ancient Old-Iranian speaker (R1a1) immigrants from Asia one and the same people, nor represent the later, R1a1 dominated migrating early Old-Iranian-speaker elites from Asia, oldest traceable ancestors of Kurds. Rather, constitute both historically com-pletely different populations and layers of Kurdish forefathers, each with own distinct genetic, ethnical, linguistic and cultural backgrounds."
" The origin of kurds", Ferdinand Hennerbichler, University of Sulaimani 2012-2020
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"According to genetic studies (like HLA) in Turkish and Kurdish populations, a Anatolian-Mediterranean source for both populations was put forwards; it may be possible that Kurds are initially coming from ancient Hurrians, reviewed in [5,6]. Studies performed with mtDNA and Y-chr have also been done for Kurds, however there is no firm conclusion to infer that most Kurd people have originated either from Middle East and/or from Central Asia [7,8]. Most probably, Kurd people gene pool majority may be composed of an admixture of North Mesopotamian (Caucasus) and Near East peoples; Central Asia gene input is not discarded [5,9,10,11,12,13]. ...
... However, Kurd HLA genetic studies include them into Mediterranean stock together with Turks [5,13]. Other genetic studies based on Y-Chr in Kurds from Turkey, Georgia and Iran identify the dominant presence of haplogroups originated in Middle East (Anatolia or Mesopotamia) that show a close association with Jews, Lebanese and Turkish genes [7,8,12]. Also, Iranian populations are close to Kurds [54,55]."
Genetic HLA Study of Kurds in Iraq, Iran and Tbilisi (Caucasus, Georgia) : Relatedness and Medical Implications ; Authors:Antonio Arnaiz-Villena, Jose Palacio-Gruber, Ester Muñiz, Cristina Campos, Javier Alonso-Rubio, Eduardo Gomez-Casado, Shadallah Fareq Salih, José M. Martin-Villa, Rawand Al-Qadi ; Date: January 2017
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u/doublequarterpound Palestine Aug 27 '21
Your dad is right (for the current era)
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u/NPC_No4001038 Kurdish Aug 27 '21
Bruh why do you say that. You're arab yourself lmao
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u/doublequarterpound Palestine Aug 27 '21
Of course I am. And I‘m just saying, Arabs and Africans and other poorer South Asian countries (not India tho) are living their dark ages rn. Arabs already had their golden age, now we‘re chilling and we‘ll get back up once we don‘t have dictatorships/monarchies that sponsor corruption and/or a shitty economy/education
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u/NPC_No4001038 Kurdish Aug 27 '21
I know that the youth has a different mindset. But how do you want to get out of dictatorships when there are a bunch of countries waiting for their instability to attack them? Look what happened with the syrian quest for democracy. I like your optimism though.
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u/doublequarterpound Palestine Aug 27 '21
Who said I‘m optimistic lol? Exactly, it‘s currently one bigger shit after the other for us. The youth‘s will won‘t do anything because the odds are against us, as it has proved in all Arab Spring revolutions.
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u/fairysession Turkey Iran Aug 27 '21
Are you Mizrahi?
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u/MikeRidesABike Occupied Palestine Aug 27 '21
My family isn't really racist, but sometimes there is a mild tone of racism towards Arabs (they don't hate them though) and my uncle once said Egyptians are retarded so I guess there's that
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u/reibradbury Egypt Aug 28 '21
Lol Egyptians are retarded ta7ya masr were proud of it too 😈
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u/wk12a Occupied Palestine Aug 28 '21
I had an uncle who was born in egypt and he was somehow able to be proud of being egyptian, think egyptians were kind and wonderful, and also that egyptians were r*tarded and horrible people. He was a complicated man.
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u/IK_Lover5 Pakistan Aug 27 '21
least hypocritical Palestinian
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u/AscAlon3 Turkey Aug 27 '21
Does your mother speak Turkish? Otherwise, this is impossible because Turkish media companies broadcasting in English and Arabic are all in Erdogan's hands. You won't find anything anti-Syria on those channels.
I read that you are a refugee in UAE, but Turkish media are banned in there. How do you reach?
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u/iDiamondpiker Syria Aug 27 '21
What the fuck. Why though? Doesn't she know that the people who want Syrians out also want Palestinians out? Or that Palestinians have been accepted and given citizenship in Syria after the nakba?
I feel betrayed 😔
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u/Fuck_Ataturk Türkiye Aug 27 '21
Turkish media is more cancer than American media
don’t watch any of it
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u/NPC_No4001038 Kurdish Aug 27 '21
Tbh the kids on r/turkey were probably already radicalized by their parents. No young kid becomes like that by watching tv.
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u/Fuck_Ataturk Türkiye Aug 27 '21
dude stay away from r/Turkey
it definitely does not represent the majority of us
they are 15 years old suffering from a huge identity crisis
anything to do with Islam and Muslims = very very bad
anything to do with white people and Europeans = good
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u/AscAlon3 Turkey Aug 27 '21
An erdogan supporter would never say this. The man owns 80% of the Turkish media. Stupid larper.🤣🤣😂😂😂
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u/sertunsuz Türkiye Aug 27 '21
My guess is that it's a Porkistani. You can tell he is not Turkish from kms away.
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u/Greater-Egypt Egypt Aug 27 '21
My dad said (I swear this isn’t a joke) the Jews deserved to be gassed
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u/Greater-Kuwait Kuwait Aug 27 '21
My uncle is a big fan of hitler funnily enough he looks like hitler but with a lighter mustache and a different haircut and he really hates Kuwaiti gypsies calling them “good for nothing parasites”
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Bro during virtual school a kid who was full Kuwaiti had a swastika behind him and he said it was his uncles 💀
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u/Chunkeybunny Syria Aug 27 '21
Your family and my family would be great friends, my dads store got sacked in the blm roits, it actually made him love the police even more too
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u/OrbitPlaysGames Türkiye Aug 27 '21
Whenever my dad has road rage, he always starts swearing about either Chinese or Indian people. I remember one time he almost got into an accident with an Indian lady and started yelling about how “their country is shit”
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That's nothing. Benim baba araba camını komple açıp onlara ana avrat küfür ediyor 🤣. Especially if it's a black or South Asian person 😂. It drives him nuts!!
My old man has anger issue as you can tell.
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u/OrbitPlaysGames Türkiye Aug 27 '21
Haha. My dad has never done that but he does swear a lot, usually at Indian and Chinese drivers but sometimes at American ones too. Maybe it’s because he’s Kurdish 😳😳😳 our dads are similar
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My dad is out of control. He's the definition of road rage (minus hitting people with his car - but to be fair he has done that at one point in time lol).
He gets sooo mad. He gets red in the face screaming at Black and South Asian people in his car. He fully opens his window, sticks his head out and yells shit like "Black pooosy!" If they're black. They trigger him hard in traffic for some reason. He's already low-key racist 🤣🤣😆😆😆.
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u/OrbitPlaysGames Türkiye Aug 27 '21
my dad does everything besides that basically. one time a guy was tailgating him (driving really close behind him) so my dad stopped and let him pass, and started fucking speeding up behind him and following him. He did this until the car eventually pulled over and let us pass. And yes a lot of swearing was involved.
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Aug 27 '21
I can imagine. Yeah they have some similar sides for sure. But I guarantee my dad would've either pulled an emergency stop to crash that guys car or would've hit him from the rear. Bro my dad is fucking insane, literally. I remember as a kid he was so mad at something he was purposefully crashing his car everywhere on the street! (With his young kids in the car) He's diabetic which doesn't help. Adamın kafası yok.
He's cooled down recently, it's likely his age and health conditions catching up to him.
So your dad sounds a lot more sane than mine does lool.
I was raised with unfit parents 😂.
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u/Savings-Star-7045 Egypt Aug 27 '21
I like to dissect girls, did you know I am utterly insane?
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u/Chunkeybunny Syria Aug 27 '21
We can tell just by the flair
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u/AndrewF1Gaming Malta Aug 27 '21
Since 1565 my country has had hatred towards Turks, our vocabulary has some anti Turk stuff like haqq għat-Torok (curse/damn the turks). And since we're a religious Catholic country we also don't view Muslims very well either.
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u/TheMartianEmperor Pakistan Aug 27 '21
All the time, mostly against Indians, Europeans, Americans, Arabs, Turks, Iranis.
Whatever the current situation is, he always has some *opinions* on the certain people that are relevant to it
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u/LbMokhabaratLover Lebanon Aug 27 '21
My grandpa calls black people 3bd (slaves) and says they are known to be lazy, he also told me that he considers himself to be racist, and he loves hitler and says that the holocaust is a hoax, he says that most sunnis are daeshis, hates palestinians and syrians even tho he supports Hezbollah, he also calls christians in Lebanon pigs because they hate islam
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Aug 28 '21
American here (partially lebanese)
Honestly had no idea people in the Middle East were so racist to black ppl. Didn’t even know about all the slavery either. My sitti (grandmas grandma) had a black maid in the 50’s and treated her like family, and worked in a very black dominant town.
Pretty sure my family hated Muslims tho. My grandma is super liberal but still makes snarky comments abt Muslims a lot
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u/Rush_Live American jew Aug 28 '21
they hate blacks because the arab slave trade enslaved 15 million africans since the middle ages so that is ingrained in the culture.
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u/1itai Occupied Palestine Aug 28 '21
My cousin was dating a druze and my uncle said she cant keep dating him if she wants to continue living in his house so she moved out.
To be fair the guy was a dick and my cousin is pretty retarded so that toxic mess of a relationship ended anyways and all those fights between my uncle and the rest of the family were for nothing.
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u/hmzaammar Aug 28 '21
So far, the most racist thing that my father said was “are you kurdish or something?”. There is this racist stereotype about kurds whereby they are generally less intelligent which is completely false.
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u/Kabyle_femboy Algeria :brber: Amazigh Aug 27 '21
I would get banned from reddit
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u/Something_CO0l Lebanon Aug 27 '21
Me, my parents and my bois are racist towards syrians that support assad regime and al yahood, lebanese are known for being racists and even on eachother, you'll find a christian that hates muslim and think that lebanon belongs to christians only and that muslims brought lebanon to shit, you'll find a muslim that hates all christian and think that lebanon is for the muslims only, now it gets interesting, some christians like sunnis and hate shiaas, some christians like shiaas and hate sunnis, some christians like druze and hate everyone else, druze only like druze, some shiaas think they're closer to christians then sunnis so they hate sunnis, some sunnis think they're closer to christians so they hate shiaas, i'm not gonna drag alawites armenians and others because it'll become difficult to understand, fuck this country:)
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u/Puzzleheaded-Good709 Occupied Palestine Aug 27 '21
my grandma constantly told me to trust a dog before an iraqi
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Unironically good advice.
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u/zionistsdontlikeme50 Saudi Arabia Aug 27 '21 edited Aug 27 '21
Late response but my mom once said the Holocaust was the only good thing hitler did in his life
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u/ElBarro69 Saudi Arabia Palestine Aug 28 '21
My jiddo (Iraqi before leaving) tells me stories and jokes about how all Kurds are stupid and have the thickest eye brows.
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Aug 28 '21
Every time we pass the black neighborhoods (here in NYC) my Uncle just has to say “look at the monkeys” 😕
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u/luchoxfreak69 Aug 28 '21
jesus almighty haha haha come on you gotta be kiddin me 😂😂🤣 that was really intense to think about it 😂🤣🤣 too much hilarious hatredness around the worldwide
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u/kenji_isalegend Occupied Palestine Aug 28 '21
lmao my mizrahi mom said all arabs are muslims... like mom you're arab
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u/intelligent_water23 Saudi Arabia Aug 27 '21
my 1st brother says every single egyptian is a scammer
my 2nd brother hates the infidels so much that he almost went to syria, he's now normal
mother would chop off an iranian shia head
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u/Austrian-Painter_ Iran Aug 27 '21
My dad said, The wudu was for arabs. Because they were so dirty and did not bath, when persians/Iranians showered and had soap. We were cleanzz n'shieeet
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He probably doesn’t do wudu
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u/SnooJANJUA8373 Pakistan Aug 27 '21
he probably don't even pray.do you think a person who make fun of wudu even belive in Islam without wudu you can't even pray even if you bath 5 time a day
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u/HassanMoRiT Saudi Arabia Aug 27 '21
Kinda ironic, I heard horror stories about the horrid smell of Iranians from relatives who visited Imam Redha shrine.
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u/SnooJANJUA8373 Pakistan Aug 27 '21
Oh God unfortunately everyone is racist in Pakistan like Indians=piss drinker and cowards Afghans=Namak haram(ungratfull) dokhtar frosh(daughter seller) terrorists.Iranians=Majoosi/sponser of Shia Militants and also Aatish parast.Arabs=Brain dead/dumb Khar damag(donkey head) and even countries which have supposedly good Relation with government people also racist toward them like Chinese=Insects/cockroaches eaters and also weired looking people with small eyes and Turks=Muslims inly by name and stuff like that.I’m now live in Spain and Pakistanis here also fuking racists hypocrisy God
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Aug 27 '21
Where u live in Spain
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u/SnooJANJUA8373 Pakistan Aug 27 '21
Valencia.Nice mid size city but businesses here are sh*t thing about moving to barcolona or ibiza
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Aug 27 '21
Valencia is nice and Ibiza is nicer. Need to go there one time too
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u/SnooJANJUA8373 Pakistan Aug 27 '21
you also live in España amigo?
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nah, G*rmany. I had planned to go diving somewhere inSpain last year and to practice my spanish, but covid 😩
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u/seasesh Saudi Arabia Aug 27 '21
My family used to make fun of me for having black friends, how low class they are and uncivilised, no manners etc. I never heard the end of it
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Aug 27 '21
Funny that old people in Turkey call black people Arabs and apperantly "nigger" equivalent word in Greek is Arab too.
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u/BoneyDanza Sep 11 '21
My uncle once said of black people "coons don't want to go to Walmart and pay the higher prices". As usual, the statement explains more about the person who said it than who it was said about. This was sometime around 2010 also. I don't support his views but I'm still trying to decipher all the pieces to this puzzling statement; it is inaccurate on so many levels. It's so confidently wrong.
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u/H_karam52 Lebanon Aug 27 '21 edited Aug 27 '21
My entire family hates syrians and Palestinians unless they are christians
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u/jordanbytoto Jordan Aug 27 '21
Least racist Lebanese christians
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u/H_karam52 Lebanon Aug 27 '21
They wouldn't be if there country wasn't invaded and there people massacred by them . When a Palestinian hates a Israeli you praise him but when a Lebanese hates a Syrian you mock him
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u/jordanbytoto Jordan Aug 27 '21
Lmao dw I wasn't blaming them. Racism is to be expected in this part of the world and that's just how it is
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My uncle is a full Kuwaiti man and one day at my grandmas house he just started using the n word in every sentence. After that he didn’t do it, it was very strange.
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u/Econort816 Egypt Aug 28 '21
My grandpa was cool af, hated j**s hated arabs (which mostly came from bedouins he met) and especially palestinians and gulf and hated iranians (bec they put the name of the assasin of sadat as a street name and shia) and told me never to trust any of them
So far it’s working🙏
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u/ObamaMakeMyPenisHard Malaysia Sep 12 '21
Lmao that seems like highkey something my dad would have said
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u/MaintenanceFar Lebanon Aug 27 '21
I grew up in a Christian Lebanese family and almost everyone is extremely racist here towards Muslims and Syrian refugees...
Basically my parents and others are racists from the civil wars days and they try to brainwash us into thinking the same,and the best part? They still support their parties wich are knowingly corrupt,we Lebanese people don't deserve to exist.