9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Has the crowd dispersed now?" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "No, its still out there, but unarmed. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Just chanting. You know, standard 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 'Death to America' stuff." 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 From True Lies to American Sniper, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 From 24 to 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 western media is full of images of 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 evil brown people who need to be wiped 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 from the earth by noble righteous white men, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 heroically fighting for freedom and justice. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And sure, it's so commonplace by this point 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 that maybe you don't even bat an eye at 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 old-fashioned American Islamophobia 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 in our media. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "[laughter] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [characters speaking in Arabic] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [protestors chanting in Arabic] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "This is a hijack!" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [passengers screaming] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Sit down! Sit down!" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Nobody move! Nobody!" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "All right!" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Engage hostile targets as they appear!" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Waste the motherfuckers!" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "You have killed our women and our children. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Bombed our cities from afar... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "like cowards...and you dare 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "to call us 'terrorists"?!" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Here, my desert blossom. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Keep the change! 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Have you ever considered joining a harem?" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Oh my God. They found me. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "I don't know how, but they found me." 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Nooooooo!" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 What?! Back to the Future!! 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Even that beloved comedy classic 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 takes a moment to toss in a few scary brown men 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 to menace and terrorize our white heroes. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Unfortunately, we can't hop in 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Doc Brown's DeLorean 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and undo all the harmful representations of 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Muslims, Arabs, and Middle Easterners 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 that have haunted our stories since, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 well, basically since the Crusades. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But we can make sure that history 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 doesn't keep repeating itself. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Ok, ok. Maybe that's not entirely fair. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 In some ways, things have changed. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Once upon a time, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 non-white actors could hardly 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 get any work in Hollywood at all. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 These days, shows like 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Homeland and movies like 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Executive Decision are providing some brown 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 actors with ample opportunity to portray 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 scary terrorists who get gunned down 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 while screaming something absurd like 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Death to America!" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It doesn't even matter if you're not actually 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 of Middle Eastern descent. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 If you're vaguely brown, you can stick around 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 (to play bad guys). 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Oh, are you an artist, Mr. Thurkettle?" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "No, uh, sir. I work for a little company" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "called Texan Oil." 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Well, there is no oil here, Mr Thurkettle." 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "Just sand." 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Now sure, not every Middle Eastern character 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 in films is a villain. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 In the 1920 box-office smash, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The Sheik, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the dashing hero gets the girl in the end. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But the Arab world of the film is presented as 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 exotic and dangerous, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and the sheik himself, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the one, good, heroic Arab, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 is played by Italian-American heartthrob 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Rudolph Valentino. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 You see, since he's not really Arab, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 he's allowed to get the girl in the end. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 If you think this kind of racist coding 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 to signify the difference between 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "good" Arabs and "bad" Arabs went away with the 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 advent of talkies, think again. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Have you ever noticed how in Disney's Aladdin, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the good guy might as well be 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 a tanned American surfer dude, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but the bad guys look and sound a little more... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 uh, Arab? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "You are late." 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "A thousand apologies, oh patient one." 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "You have it then?" 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "I had to slit a few throats, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but I got it." 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 While Hollywood has historically given 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 "good" Arab roles to non-Arab actors, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 it has also given not-so-good Arab 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 and South Asian roles to white actors, too -- 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 denying brown people work and decent 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