Rowena

[Amenian]

telling someone to stay "in the middle east" as a way to insinuate conservative aesthetics is, in fact, racist

Oh spare me your false outrage. I spoke of a geographic region where the GOVERNMENTS have decided that showing skin is a crime that is punishable in some cases all the way up to death. That's not racist. I said nothing of race anywhere. I said nothing of any type of people. I said something about a geographic area where a certain standard of dress is endemic to that area as opposed to almost any other area of the world. It's not racist, it's fact. I am so sick of you people screaming racist as a way to silence opposing thoughts because of the highly negative stigma associated with that accusation. Ironically (if I'm using that correctly) enough, it is the very use of that accusation for that reason that is watering it down to the point where it carries about as much of a negative stigma as calling someone a poopyhead.