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I know, I never said it was somebody else. As I've said elsewhere, they could've picked any other picture of him but they specifically picked this one because it conforms to what people already think what a terrorist looks like. That's what a stereotype is.
You put the imagery under the name to illustrate that they're a terrorist to people that already have the stereotype ingrained and it also ends up illustrating to other people that that's what a terrorist looks like. Worse, it normalizes the idea that stereotypes are a reliable source of information about people. This isn't bad because it's going to hurt his feelings, it's bad because it affects completely unrelated people.
Honestly it's insane to me that this has to be explained to a presumed anti-racist
It's great because it shatters a preconception that this was about looks or terrorism. The list is "enemies of America". Like how people are very confused when you show them this image of Reagan and the Taliban.
Honestly fuck off with that. Perpetuating stereotypes is not 'great' just because it helps your point.
This is debunking stereotypes not perpetuating them.
Should we have forced him to shave before photographing him, like the US military did in Iraq in 2006?
Or should we clean up his image, as the US is doing right now?
