Did you mean Arab costume ?

October 27, 2008 za3tar 12 comments

I was reading an article on how a Barack Obama face mask was filed under “terrorist costumes” on Amazon.com. I ran the search myself, but i got a John McCain face mask as a result. However, what caught my attention is what Amazon returned as “related search” for that query:

(try this yourself)

That’s gotta bum you out for the rest of the day right ?

Arabiana, Internet none

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Written by Qwaider قويدر on October 27, 2008.

*pulls up his Amazong contats to give them an earful*
Written by mab3oos on October 28, 2008.

I suggest posting contacts to exact department/customer service so people can email/call and complain about this utter racism. I don’t see abortion clinic bomber not FARC masks! It is Racism.
Written by Batoul on October 28, 2008.

I’m sick of all this stereotypical junk in this country.. ignorant dsfjakgjdfslhj.
Written by Hani Obaid on October 28, 2008.

Not long back Walmart.com got in trouble over the related features on their DVDs. Something like a customer clicking on a DVD on monkeys and a DVD about African Americans appearing in the related DVDs link. When this kind of thing happens the categorization system is either too human (biased) or too artificial intelligence (dumb)!
Written by Maioush on October 28, 2008.

::sigh:: i keep on thinking, and it will get worse, but the thought of it scares the heck out of me, what’s worse than this?? allah yestor, but this is really sick!
Written by za3tar on October 29, 2008.

Qwaider: Thanks for your effort.

Garfan: It is discouraging isn’t it

Batoul: Let’s not lose hope that things might change some time in the future.

Hani: It’s interesting to know that. Would you happen to know how big was the push against Walmart ? Was it mostly online campaigns or did it hit the press first ?

Maioush: Don’t lose hope Maioush .. it could get better some day.
Written by KJ on October 29, 2008.

sheeesh

they’re not going to grow up are they
Written by Emet on October 29, 2008.

How about changing your society’s behaviour? Then it won’t happen.

Nobody calls the Swedes terrorists- or the Japanese, or….

It isn’t because of your race.
Written by za3tar on October 29, 2008.

KJ: Maybe one day.

Emet: But good sir, please keep in mind that there is between 350 to 400 Million Arabs in this world, and you can not label all of us by the actions of a very very small bad minority. Every ethnicity has many many decent people and only a tiny minority of bad apples, and we can’t go around labeling the many by the actions of the very few.
Written by hdefa on October 29, 2008.

I mean really strange racism in the West
Written by Emet on November 2, 2008.

za3tar,

If it’s such a small minority, then you would have done something about them.

You haven’t and you don’t.

Pity.
Written by Helfyre Tyrell on September 2, 2009.

Political Costumes. I see them every year! My closet is usally full of old costumes from years gone past. Many dress up parties and a few toss-aways from those nights when my girlfriend wants to “spice up” our relationship. Every Halloween is the same though. Who needs to spend money on buying a new costume? Just raid the closet.
-Helfyre Tyrell-

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”-Da Vinci
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Did you mean Arab costume ?

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