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14.8.12

The Red Eye newspaper published a racist "Turban Primer"
Broadcasting bigotry | SocialistWorker.org: IN THE wake of the massacre at a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wis., that left seven people dead--neo-Nazi gunman Wade Michael Page among them--Chicago's commuter newspaper RedEye published a helpful chart...for aspiring racists.

The paper's "Turban primer" pictured various Middle Eastern and South Asian men wearing turbans. Credited to "MCT Illustrations," the graphic depicts the headgear of "Sikh men," "Iranian leaders," "Taliban members," "Indian men" (oddly, Turkish men are lumped in with Indian men) and "Muslim religious elders."


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