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Community => Society and History => Topic started by: kefkaownsall on October 28, 2013, 09:25:12 am
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/27/wisconsin-man-brutally-attacks-hebrew-speakers-for-speaking-spanish/
They don't even sound alike
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Well not if you can understand one of them or are at least familiar with them. If you can't speak it then all foreign langueages sound like greek to you.
I'm guessing he heard something that didn't sound like english and assumed that it must therefore be spanish. He could have had the same reaction to someone speaking urdu, swedish or afrikaans for that matter.
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I'm guessing this guy isn't exactly the brightest.
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Spanish is at least Indo-European and English has many Latin words. Spanish would sound a lot closer to English than Hebrew does. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if some bigot hit a Jewish person for "appearing" Arabic.
As a side note, why'd the use stock photos of Hassidic Jews?
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Spanish is at least Indo-European and English has many Latin words. Spanish would sound a lot closer to English than Hebrew does. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if some bigot hit a Jewish person for "appearing" Arabic.
As a side note, why'd the use stock photos of Hassidic Jews?
This basically Mandarin and Japanese might blend together but Hebrew is so different I could say nope not european
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Murrica....Freedom of Speech, but only in English.
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Spanish is at least Indo-European and English has many Latin words. Spanish would sound a lot closer to English than Hebrew does. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if some bigot hit a Jewish person for "appearing" Arabic.
As a side note, why'd the use stock photos of Hassidic Jews?
This basically Mandarin and Japanese might blend together but Hebrew is so different I could say nope not european
Mandarin and Japanese sound completely different to me. Even more so than Spanish and Hebrew, which I can't immagine anyone with even the slightest familiarity with world languages mixing up.
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Spanish is at least Indo-European and English has many Latin words. Spanish would sound a lot closer to English than Hebrew does. To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if some bigot hit a Jewish person for "appearing" Arabic.
As a side note, why'd the use stock photos of Hassidic Jews?
This basically Mandarin and Japanese might blend together but Hebrew is so different I could say nope not european
Mandarin and Japanese sound completely different to me. Even more so than Spanish and Hebrew, which I can't immagine anyone with even the slightest familiarity with world languages mixing up.
Well maybe that person WASN'T familiar with world languages.
IN 'MURRICA WE SPEAK 'MURRICAN!
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Exactly. Just shows how ignorant many Americans are about the world beyond our back yard.
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Could just be because I live in New Mexico, but I've never seen blatant anti-Spanish discrimination coming from state politicians, and I've never seen people beaten up for "not speaking English". All of our state laws are written in English and Spanish.
I understand that the rest of the U.S. is a lot whiter, but you'd think they would pull their heads out of their asses and stop irrationally defending a language that was imposed on us by British rule.
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How the ass does someone confuse Spanish and Hebrew?
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Well not if you can understand one of them or are at least familiar with them. If you can't speak it then all foreign langueages sound like greek to you.
And if you're Greek back in the golden days of Greece, all other languages sound like barbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbarbar....
Anyways, I'm ashamed but unsurprised that this happened in my state. Fuck this place, and fuck our Governor.
...No, it's not his fault this happened, but fuck him anyways, he's an asshat.
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At least you guys still have hate crimes laws. Question in these oops mistook you for someone else type of hate crimes how to charge like is this religious against Jews or against latinos.
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It did happen after bar closing time. After two A.M. So yeah, a sleep deprived drunk redneck and/or Teahadi type perpetrator. But even in the deepest, coldest Northern Midwest, there are tons of Hispanic American citizens and immigrants. He could not live there and not know what Spanish sounds like. You just cannot confuse Spanish with Hebrew, unless you are drunk as hell, like black-out level drunk. It's the Midwest. There is work there, there are jobs there, so duh, there are Latinos there. Don't bother arguing cultural work ethic intensity of the Latino community Versus the Anglo community with these assholes, because they unconsciously know they pale by comparison to Latinos on actual freaking work tolerance and ambition, so HATRED...(impotent jealousy).
This dude was just a potential murderer-ish personage looking for victims while drunk, most likely. No matter his idiocy in miss-identifying the ethnicity of the victims and the language spoken, it was a hate crime of the purest form. Hatred of not-just-like-me. Beat/injure/kill the not-like-me's. Cave man level stupidity. Too bad this fuckwit has probably already reproduced.