Dear Evan,
Since I’m sure I’ll be one of many responses to your incendiary and misinformed Wespeak, I’ll try my best to be brief. For starters, you are making generalizations about Arabs while using the term “Muslims.” In fact, of the world’s billion plus Muslims, only about 1/3 are Arab. That you called my family and friends “savages” and “animals” does not upset me so much as your total lack of willingness to question your culture’s savage exploitation of the Middle East and the Third World in general, not to mention your own role (that’s right, YOU, Evan Carp) in creating the conditions you speak so callously about. Maybe your fragile little mind was warped long ago by seeing one too many Disney movies with Arab-looking bad guys, or maybe you’ve just been watching too much Fox news lately, but in case you didn’t notice, the west has been gang-raping the Muslim world ever since the Ottoman empire collapsed at the end of the First World War. Maybe you’ve forgotten (or maybe you just never learned) about the tens of thousands of Egyptians who died building the Suez Canal so that it could be profitable for its Western owners. Similarly, perhaps it slipped your mind that your country has given billions (90 billion last I checked) of dollars to Israel to help them with their “savage” problems. Maybe you forgot the 500,000 Iraqis who perished under U.S. sanctions in the ’90s. Not to mention the countless democracies we’ve overthrown in the Middle East to install the tyrannical governments of which you spoke. And while I’m at it, why not mention the prisoners facing torture at American hands right now. But maybe your liberal political views allow you to dissociate yourself from such atrocities. You think to yourself, “hey, I voted for Kerry” while shaking your head in disgust at the savages on your TV screen. But, Evan Carp, please remember that savage is as savage does. You personally profit on a daily basis from your country’s monstrous actions in the third world. Maybe instead of asking what’s wrong with the people you’re exploiting, you should be asking yourself, “What’s wrong with Evan Carp?”
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