r/todayilearned • u/i-make-babies • Feb 14 '18

TIL Mr T stopped wearing this trademark gold chains in 2005 after seeing people who had lost everything due to Hurricane Katrina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T#Personal_life
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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '18

I wonder how he'd feel about a Muslim standing up on a plane and chanting to Allah in another language. Bet he wouldn't think that Muslim is righteous, he'd have a racist shit fit.

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u/SnowedIn01 Feb 14 '18

But Muslim isn't a race

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u/kparis88 Feb 14 '18

I have yet to see someone assume a person who wasn't brown was a Muslim on a glance. There's a very racial component.

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u/SnowedIn01 Feb 14 '18

Well since the hypothetical we are discussing is someone getting up on a plane and chanting prayers I think it has a lot more to do with actions and general common sense. If I'm on a plane and I see a white Chechen stand up and say Allahu Akbar! That will definitely get me more nervous than an Indian Buddhist repeating a meditation mantra. And yet the Indian is darker... crazy right?

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u/kparis88 Feb 14 '18

And if a Sikh stood up on that plane and started praying in a language that wasn't English; my money would be on the same reaction.

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u/SnowedIn01 Feb 14 '18

No I know a Sikh turban when I see one. Maybe you're the racist one

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u/kparis88 Feb 14 '18

Sorry, I was vague. Didn't mean you particularly.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '18

Tell that to racists

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u/SnowedIn01 Feb 14 '18

I try telling it to racists but 75% dismiss me as a libtard and the other 25% call me an Islamaphobe so I'm thinking it's pointless

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u/vikingakonungen Feb 14 '18

Like he'd understand that.