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		rajbot on June 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Customer: Apple Store denied me iPad for speaking ... It would be racial profiling if you treated brown people speaking Farsi and white people speaking Farsi differently, right? So what do you think would happen to a white person who was speaking Farsi while shopping at an Apple store?

jcromartie on June 19, 2012 [–]

Many Iranian women are fair-skinned. Why do you think this girl was "brown"?

rajbot on June 19, 2012 | [–]

Because I watched the video in the linked post. What do you think would have happened if she was white?

DrMfloss on June 19, 2012 | | [–]

she is not brown but she is not white either. she is more like Olive.

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