I haven't seen that, but I've been watching mainstream media, not blogs. And I bet there will be the opinion pieces on Asian family expectations, but on the other hand, there will be more about mental illness.
I don't want to put myself in the position of defending the logic of idiots who commit hate crimes, I'll just say that such idiots don't have a full grasp of world religion and probably made the assumption that there's a relationship between "looking Middle Eastern" and "being Muslim." Fine-grained distinctions (or even coarse-grained ones) are not something often made by such idiots. Again, I see a qualitative difference in the perils faced by Muslims (and people who might be mistaken for Muslims) after 9/11 and the peril of South Koreans on the VA Tech campus now.
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Date: 2007-04-18 03:51 pm (UTC)I don't want to put myself in the position of defending the logic of idiots who commit hate crimes, I'll just say that such idiots don't have a full grasp of world religion and probably made the assumption that there's a relationship between "looking Middle Eastern" and "being Muslim." Fine-grained distinctions (or even coarse-grained ones) are not something often made by such idiots. Again, I see a qualitative difference in the perils faced by Muslims (and people who might be mistaken for Muslims) after 9/11 and the peril of South Koreans on the VA Tech campus now.