At the start of one of my advisory assignments in the Middle East, I was sent to Wright-Patterson AF Base to attend a class on how to be the proper advisor. It covered a lot of the legal stuff, but there were also a couple of classes on cultural sensitivity.
The class had a couple of "experts" come for each of the major geographic areas, and of course we got some local middle east experts who had done no more than visit the middle east a few times to chat with the local academics.
One of the experts proclaimed the middle east free of racism because arabs come in all skin tones, from white to black and everything in between. It's true that arabs come in all skin colors, but using that as proof of the middle east being free of racism is as stupid as claiming the US free of racism because there are Americans of all skin tones. The few of us that knew better were all chuckling in the back, and she got pretty annoyed. She asked us what we thought was so funny, and so I told her about the time I was in a with a group of Saudi officers, listening to some Saudi general go on and on about nothing at all (actually he was ranting about how if the Israelis came through the passes in northwest KSA by al Bir and Tabuk, they would be decimated...we chuckled pretty hard about that one too) when one of the lighter skinned Saudi officers turned to us and in perfect english said "This is what you get when they put a n*****r in charge.". I don't know if she ever saw the kind of blatant, constant racism that I saw, but if she did, she refused to acknowledge it,
as she refused to acknowledge what I was saying.
Anyway, that's an anecdotal introduction to this cartoon at LGF. Here's the kind of racist-free stuff that the middle east is famous for. The top reads:
“Hillary” and “Obama” – A Woman and a Negro are Participating in the Campaign for the American Presidency
The mullah is saying:
“This is another sign of the collapse of the Western civilization”
Yup, no racism there.
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