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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00
I have an insane fear of elevators and getting stuck in one (caustrophia) especially with the wrong person. I avoid elevators if I can... actually did for 8 years until my job required it. And that first time getting in again was hell and I almost started hyperventilating but then the doors finally opened. So it's not bullshit.
If I saw Timothy McVeigh, in a post-terrorism world (and old enough to understand better) on the street I'd probably be wary of him. He was kinda scary looking.
How's does the red thing come from watching too many movies?
And no I'm not afraid of turbans. Stop making assumptions.
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and again the point I am making like a plane just flew right over you...let's work backwards here...
Turbans and red bandanas...I asked you simply because you brought up the 'red bandanas' thing which outside of LA gangs...I have never really heard of marking a terrorist....basically when you said it...it was already reaching.
Timothy McVeigh on the street - ummm...how would you know to be wary of him? This drives deep in the heart of what we are talking about as far as profiling...most people on the street that we walk past we have no clue unless they are overtly obvious as to what they are capable of doing. You wouldn't know what Tim was capable of doing just as much as you would know what the young man in this article is capable of.
When I read this article and when I read your reaction, the first thing that came to my mind was the scene from Harold and Kumar II
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj0tZZxxcpc
and yes altho it was comedy, it plays so much to the truth that perception can be soooo overblown.
Elevators and claustrophobia - So that is your problem....you should have clarified that from the start.
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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00
Since 9-11, I'm very wary of everyone around me. I feel the same way when I get into an elevator (aka death trap) with someone I don't know, no matter what color (yes even white) or religion they are. 9-11 has made people paranoid, and I'm one of those people. This is a current fear due to something that is still so fresh in a lot of people's minds. I'm sorry but that's the living truth and I'm not going to be ridiculed for stating my thoughts and feelings on it.
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Instead you come off soundling like you are a paranoid xenophobe.
PSsssst....if it makes you feel better I'm scared of white people too.......hehehe !!