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"Has the crowd dispersed now?"

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"No, its still out there, but unarmed.

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Just chanting. You know, standard

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'Death to America' stuff."

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From True Lies to American Sniper,

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From 24 to

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare,

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western media is full of images of

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evil brown people who need to be wiped

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from the earth by noble righteous white men,

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heroically fighting for freedom and justice.

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And sure, it's so commonplace by this point

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that maybe you don't even bat an eye at

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old-fashioned American Islamophobia

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in our media.

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"[laughter]

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[characters speaking in Arabic]

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[protestors chanting in Arabic]

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"This is a hijack!"

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[passengers screaming]

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"Sit down! Sit down!"

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"Nobody move! Nobody!"

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"All right!"

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"Engage hostile targets as they appear!"

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"Waste the motherfuckers!"

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"You have killed our women and our children.

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"Bombed our cities from afar...

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"like cowards...and you dare

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"to call us 'terrorists"?!"

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"Here, my desert blossom.

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"Keep the change!

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"Have you ever considered joining a harem?"

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"Oh my God. They found me.

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"I don't know how, but they found me."

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"Nooooooo!"

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What?! Back to the Future!!

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Even that beloved comedy classic

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takes a moment to toss in a few scary brown men

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to menace and terrorize our white heroes.

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Unfortunately, we can't hop in

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Doc Brown's DeLorean

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and undo all the harmful representations of

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Muslims, Arabs, and Middle Easterners

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that have haunted our stories since,

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well, basically since the Crusades.

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But we can make sure that history

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doesn't keep repeating itself.

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Ok, ok. Maybe that's not entirely fair.

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In some ways, things have changed.

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non-white actors could hardly

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get any work in Hollywood at all.

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Homeland and movies like

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Executive Decision are providing some brown

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actors with ample opportunity to portray

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scary terrorists who get gunned down

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while screaming something absurd like

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"Death to America!"

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It doesn't even matter if you're not actually

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of Middle Eastern descent.

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If you're vaguely brown, you can stick around

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(to play bad guys).

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"Oh, are you an artist, Mr. Thurkettle?"

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"No, uh, sir. I work for a little company"

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"called Texan Oil."

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"Well, there is no oil here, Mr Thurkettle."

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"Just sand."

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in films is a villain.

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The Sheik,

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the dashing hero gets the girl in the end.

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exotic and dangerous,

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the one, good, heroic Arab,

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is played by Italian-American heartthrob

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Rudolph Valentino.

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he's allowed to get the girl in the end.

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"good" Arabs and "bad" Arabs went away with the

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advent of talkies, think again.

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the good guy might as well be

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a tanned American surfer dude,

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but the bad guys look and sound a little more...

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uh, Arab?

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"You are late."

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"A thousand apologies, oh patient one."

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"You have it then?"

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"I had to slit a few throats,

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but I got it."

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"good" Arab roles to non-Arab actors,

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denying brown people work and decent

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Father of the Bride 2,

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"The Habibs would like to buy the house, George."

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"We've lived here for 18 years."

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99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999


355
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999


356
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999


357
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999


358
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999


359
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999


360
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999


361
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999


362
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999


363
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999


364
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999


365
99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999