02-09-2017, 06:47 PM
Lux Interior wrote:
[quote=$tevie]
Especially when "being Irish on St. Patrick's Day" in this country means getting shit-faced and acting like an idiot. :RollingEyesSmiley5:
My facepalm on this part of the interview was that the implication is that Jews & Muslims aren't American. How do you equate religious affiliation with being foreign?
Well, I guess Mormons believe that Jesus spent some time in North America, but other than that, the only "American" religions are those of native Americans. And even they came over the Bering Straight at some point.
It didn't land on me quite that way - he did mention St Patrick's Day which is ridiculous to equate with Eid Al-fitr or Chanukah but whatever, should've thrown in Cinco do mayo too. He covered the 3 major Abrahamic religions in a superficial and mildly insulting way. I think he had good intentions and was trying to say that Americans come from all sorts of cultural backgrounds and that we should and do celebrate these diverse cultures, he just did it very clumsily.