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In reply to the discussion: Is There Anyone Here Who Is Actually Dumb Enough [View all]Bucky
(54,013 posts)Besides being a social studies teacher, I live in Houston and frequent the art scene. You don't live here and do that without having a pretty diverse circle of friends.
My assumptions about Bill Maher's prejudices are derived from Bill Maher's statements about Muslims. He generally describes third world Middle Eastern crowds who are angry about their countrymen being bombed by the West, and are sometimes duped by extremists. But like most bigots, you're right, he doesn't go too deep into specifics.
The other advantage of living in Houston, is that you get a pretty good sense of what prejudiced people think too. So yes, I'm aware that there are Indonesians and Canadians and Nigerians and lots of other people who are neither impoverished nor radicalized nor anti-progress nor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who I am using is an example of a well-known non-stereotypical Muslim whose reality and existence is ignored by anti-muslim bigotry.