Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:00:28
It’s like naming your penis, only dumber
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.com has an article on the “Lackawanna 6,” The six Yemenites accused of operating an al-Qaeda cell in Buffalo, NY.
First of all, I should have known from the very name of this paper I was going to have at least one problem with the story. I never learn.
I’m getting really sick of “-Americans,” as I am sure most people with common sense are as well. The first glaring red flag in the story was when they referred to these guys as “Yemeni-Americans.” Ugh.
The other thing that burned my ass was the cute name they’ve been given. The “Lackawanna 6,” as if it softens the accusations against them. The media tends to give these Location/number names to groups that, for one reason or another, they believe are being persecuted or are simply outright innocent. I’d like to refer to the “Lackawanna 6” as the “Lackawanna al-Qaeda terrorist cell who wants to kill you and your family because you were born in the United States” from now on.
Can we make that happen?
Posted by JimK at 06:00 PM on October 22, 2002
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#1 Posted by Bill G.
on 10/22 at 09:17 PM -
It could be worse we could all be -Native-Americans. Italian-Native-Americans, Yemeni-Native-Americans, African-Native-Americans, it all sounds just as stupid.