Juan Williams and NPR
I could be wrong, but I believe that if Juan Williams had said "... But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are carrying a Bible and wearing a Westboro Baptist Church t-shirt, and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Christians, I get worried. I get nervous" then he would still be at
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No. White? Where did I say that the guy in the Westboro Baptist Church t-shirt was white? Why did you automatically picture a white person?
I don't know the demographics of the Westboro Baptist Church, and I really don't care to know. They're a loathsome bunch, that's why I used them as the example. To be honest, I'm not even sure I'd consider them "Christian," but that's just my opinion.
We do agree that they're a loathsome bunch, don't we?
"Common sense becomes racism when skin color becomes a formula for figuring out who's a danger to me"
He's right. Now let's take a look at his actual words again: "I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous." (Emphasis added)
Where in the quote does he say that these hypothetical people are non-white? He doesn't. He refers only to their clothing. Why did you automatically picture a non-white person in Muslim garb?
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