re: #158 rieux

Sorry for being so literal - I do that sometimes. :-) It seems to me that people at demonstrations are sometimes sensitive to people who counter-demonstrate and disagree with them, and if those people attempt to mix with them, it is felt to be provocative. That doesn’t excuse bad behavior, of course, but the resentment needn’t necessarily be bigotry - it can be just about being on the other side of the issue. And, as I’ve made clear, I don’t think that opposition to the mosque being constructed at that location is necessarily based on anti-Muslim bigotry.

And again, the reason why the crowd got “sensitive” was based solely on these two men’s appearance.

Explain again how this is different from racism; I’m still not getting it.