Bigotry on the checkout aisle
I know the general discourse in the US over the past few years towards Muslims has tended to be harsh and disparaging, but perhaps the biggest instance of culture shock to hit me here was this image and heading, prominently displayed in a supermarket checkout line.
Now I understand the Examiner is a piece-of-shit rag that nobody reads (it’s still somehow making enough money to be in business though) but there would have been rightful outrage had blacks, Jews, Christians, Asians, whatever been generalized as ‘the enemy’ on the front page of a newspaper or magazine prominently displayed on a national supermarket chain’s checkout aisle.
Still, can’t help but feel that it would have made for amusing reading. I need to stop being so dismissive of bigoted shit.
