Dealt with a terrible and humiliating racist incident

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It feels humiliating as someone who's Lebanese from the Marionite ancestry - who are BTW one of the 1st Christians in the world and descendants of the Hellenized Phoenicians who had a rich civilization in Lebanon for thousands of years - it feels humiliating that any dumb ignorant American racist just sees you have a Middle Eastern name, and all of a sudden they reduce you down to some Arab suicide bomber terrorist who yells "Allahu Akbar" and you're some subhuman savage. All of your rich cultural history, your rich Greek ancestry, your Christian background that spans thousands of years, that all gets effaced because so long as you're from the Middle East you become an Arab Jihadist terrorist caricature, despite the fact that most Lebanese Christians don't identify as Arab!! We're Marionites and Phoenicians God damn it so stop calling us Arabs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maronites

I was playing an online RPG called "Mafia" and its a game where there are 2 teams, the good team and the bad team, and the job of the good team is to kill the bad team before they get killed. The team I was on, the good team, we lost and I admit I made some not so good plays. That happens.

My profile name is my real name, which is Nassim, and its obviously Middle Eastern. Some of the white girls on my team noticed that and they began to start making fun of me and mocking me with racial slurs and very racist language

It started with telling me I suck, which is common gamer talk I guess. I can handle that.

Then came the mocking "Allahu Akbars" and laughing every few seconds. Then came the words "terrorist", "A-Rab", and before I knew it no matter how I tried to insist im not even Arab and that I'm not even Muslim for Christ sake, it didnt matter because these troglodytes saw Arab name, and all they could reply to any of my defenses were the usual maliciously spewed "Allahu Akbars" to mock and disparage me.

And this isn't an isolated incident BTW. Americans in this country can be so f*****g stupid I've seen it with my own eyes where rednecks and white supremacists would harass my community because to them any Middle Easterner is a dirty Arab Muslim terrorist, and despite telling them that we aren't even Arab or Muslim it seemed to go in 1 ear and out the other ear.

Here is one of many incidents where a Lebanese CHRISTIAN is attacked and killed by a dirty white supremacist who used racial slurs and accused him of being Muslim:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tulsa-man- ... e-killing/

And just so we're clear I am not in any way saying its ok to hate Muslims or Arabs, nor am I saying that if Lebanese were Arab or Muslims the attacks we face would be ok. All im saying is that Lebanese Christians are not Muslim and dont usually identify as Arabs, so linking us to some caricature of Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda is not only egregiously racist and hateful, it's woefully ignorant and indicative of the types of low IQ subpar intelligence that too many white supremacists and racists in America are tragically saturated with.

A shocking incident .. I'm sorry to hear. Hopefully lessons can be learnt.

All thanks to the ignorance of the typical American. Many homogeneous areas in the USA - completely lacking diversity - just "good ol' boys," as far as the eye can see, poor public education system, low incomes & thus travel budgets so next to Zero worldly exposure And, if they happen to identify is politically conservative they're likely exposed to the echo chamber of right wing media propaganda that teaches them that their whiteness makes them superior and is under constant attack from all others.

So, as much as these people are responsible for their words and actions, it's the entire society they're a part of that's responsible for the way they turned out. Be mad at them, but also feel sad for them IMO.

Just report them.

I'm very sorry to hear this. Alas this kind of nonsense is all-too-common here in the U.S.A.

My boyfriend is not even an immigrant, but he has been on the receiving end of a lot of immigrant-bashing due to his speech impairment, which a lot of folks wrongly assume is a foreign accent. He has lived in lots of places around the country, and the only place where he has NOT encountered this sort of nonsense is here in NYC.

Which part of the U.S.A. do you live in? Don't be specific enough to endanger your privacy, but I'm wondering what general region you live in, and whether you live in a rural, urban, or suburban area. Also, do you live in a neighborhood with only a few immigrants or a neighborhood with lots of immigrants?

I highly recommend cosmopolitan neighborhoods with immigrants from all over the world, if you can possibly find such a neighborhood to live in.

So I live in Wisconsin, but I visit Chicago a lot and am currently in Chicago today for a conference.

I’m sorry that happened to you.
It’s not just a problem in the USA, but from what I read , Europe as well.
Hate doesn’t know any borders.

I agree

Given your bad experience with a support group as discussed here, I hope you can find a better autistic adult support group in either Wisconsin or the Chicago area. Perhaps the following organizations might be able to help you find one?

- Chicagoland Autism Connection
- Autism Society of Illinois
- Illinois Center for Autism
- Autism Society of Eastern Wisconsin
- Autism Society of Greater Wisconsin

Also I would suggest that you look on Meetup.com.

Good luck finding a better support group.

I can't say i am surprised but i am sorry this happened to you. Gamer communities are so toxic in every way. I was way too scared to interact with people the few times i played online games.

Those people just like to be a**holes, you can be a White American or European and they would still find another reason to be an a**hole to you. They are probably very young too.

That said, putting aside the gamer community every American i met online and/or irl were very friendly and non-judgmental to me. (i am middle eastern also) In fact some of them were of asian/middle eastern heritage as well, but they were proud to be Americans too. So i have an impression, idk right or wrong, that the racist, white supremacist extremists are in the minority in the US.