So why exactly is Israeli slaughtering protesters?

[Al B. Sure!]

I mean, that's basically saying "there are some brown people who are opposed to Israel, so Israel gets to shoot all brown people when given the slightest pretext."

What's with this brown business? Arabs are white.

[Asher]

You must be colour blind.

You seem to assume colour=race, but colour in fact, = colour.

[loinburger]

"What color are they?"
"I don't know, I haven't made a detailed examination of their family trees."
"No, you idiot, I mean: what color are they?"
"Oh. Brown."

[Al B. Sure!]

You must be colour blind.

You seem to assume colour=race, but colour in fact, = colour.

I explored this exhaustively the last time it was brought up. Arab-Americans had 'white' status, affirmed by a 1909 court decision. A judge Hutton presided and made this statement:

"I am convinced that this court would not be justified in resolving a question of such doubtful construction contradictory to the rulings of other courts throughout the United States that have for many years admitted to full citizenship thousands of Syrians in the same position as applicant at bar. The courts of this nation, both state and federal, have, whenever called upon for more than a century, construed the term "white persons," or members of the white race, to include Syrians. If at this late date a different construction is to be placed upon the meaning of this very doubtful statute Congress should so declare. The objection of the government is therefore overruled."

It was in the late 1960's and early 1970's when the rise of terrorism, such as at the Munich Olympics, brought new attention to Arabs and immediate differentiation as an 'other'.

Nevertheless, whether on employment forms or the census or whatever else, white is consistently defined as having descent from the original inhabitants of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.

[loinburger]

Shut the **** up nobody cares

[Al B. Sure!]

You're the one calling white people 'brown'. What is that supposed to mean? I don't like the status of 'victim' that a term like 'brown' is associated with.

[loinburger]

You're the one calling white people 'brown'. What is that supposed to mean?

It means that they have brown skin you dumb****

[loinburger]

Look at every picture of Israelis and Palestinians duking it out and tell me that the Israelis don't have lighter skin on average. I don't give a **** about your racial theories.

[loinburger]

"But but but I found textbooks written by Nazis saying that Jews aren't white how dare you imply that Israelis have light-colored skin!"

[Al B. Sure!]

Hey tell me which one has the 'brown' skin, sir? WASP Bush or King Abdullah?

[Boris Godunov]

Abdullah

[Asher]

Abdullah

[Al B. Sure!]

Abdullah

Complexion looks pretty much the same to me.

[Al B. Sure!]

This is some Ethiopian model chick:



That is BROWN.

This is Queen Rania:



That is NOT brown.

[loinburger]

Complexion looks pretty much the same to me.

You've shut down your vision processing center so that it conforms to your racial theories. Somebody with a working brain would note that Abdullah is definitely browner than Bush.

You tried making a single skin color comparison as though that would disprove the average, and you didn't even do that right. Find an albino Syrian next time.