Some days, it’s embarrassing to be an American


But at least I’m not a Christian.

A racist woman mistakes two Brazilians as Terrorists. While filming a YouTube comedy skit in front of a local airport, a racist woman stopped her vehicle on the side of the road and started calling my friend and I terrorists. Being that I’m an aspiring filmmaker, I pulled out my camera and started recording the incident. I served the U.S Air Force and I honestly never thought this would happen to me. It’s disgusting how ignorant and blind people are nowadays. People like her need to be shunned out of society, because that’s the mentality that keeps us from progressing. SHARE this, we need this negativity shunned!

Comments

  1. blf says

    Some days, it’s embarrassing to be an American

    For USAians, that’s only only true on days ending with y or any other letter.

    For the rest of the people in the two “new world” continents, they can’t wait for those walls to be built, albeit that will, not, unfortunately, render safe the cesspool.

  2. Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls says

    *facepalm*
    Yeah, some days I just want to stay home and apologize to the world for the outlandish behavior of my fellow citizens.

  3. loreo says

    …is she okay?

    I always feel a little weird gawking at videos like this.

    I mean, beyond the bigoted nonsense, the incoherent screaming makes it seem like she needs help.

  4. says

    loreo-

    Mm, but there is worth analyzing even if that is the case, why it is reinforced with hate and intentional ignorance. There’s a reason that gay slurs and rants about terrorism are what she defaults to. And that’s a social disease in addition to anyone else.

    There’s a social idea that it is okay to do this. That it is okay to say those things and most of all that being gay is the ultimate insult (seriously, she mentions fellatio and anal more than a sex instructor deliberately covering those topics). And that’s made possible by the hate speech by people with no mental illnesses or executive processing difficulties whatsoever.

  5. slithey tove (twas brillig (stevem)) says

    WTF is objectionable about taking pictures of airplanes???
    Are cameras some kind of magical death ray that can pop plane in mid air? (I got one in my basement WIP.)
    At least she kept her road rage as verbal assaults only.

  6. rabbitbrush says

    Ahhh. A plump Florida specimen, wearing flipflops and comfortable clothing. And she’s driving with a handicapped parking plate. I guess we can all ascertain her disability, even though she appears to walk around OK.

  7. screechymonkey says

    slithey tove and Cerberus,

    Geez. If you guys would actually show up to a meeting of Middle Easterns Who Hate Middle Easterns once in a while, instead of just buying the bumper stickers, you’d know that after the pedophilia support group session but before the fellatio, we plan the airplane hijackings. And when someone interrupts to ask “airplane? What’s an airplane?” you’d look awfully foolish if you didn’t have a video of an airplane handy.

  8. StonedRanger says

    Couldn’t watch the whole thing. After about two minutes of this cow spewing her bullcrap I had to bail. I wanted to say her stupidity is surpassed by her… and drew a blank. Her stupidity is so overwhelming that I cant come up with an adequate adjective to describe her. Im glad the guys who were subjected to this got a good laugh out of it because it just made me ill. People like this are why Im no longer a christian, people like this are why I don’t have facebook or twitter or any of that kind of thing. I try to limit my exposure to throwbacks like this. I would apologize to the rest of the world for this person, but its not my fault she is like she is. Just disgusting lady. Shut the F up.

  9. screechymonkey says

    rabbitbrush,

    I think that woman gave us enough material to criticize without resorting to her weight or disability. Can we stick to the racism, homophobia, incoherent Jesus-preaching, and/or irrational anger?

  10. grumpyoldfart says

    Aspiring filmmakers my arse. Vertical aspect !?

    Imagine what happened to her children when that frustrated woman got home. Spankings every ten minutes until her arm got tired is my guess.

  11. lb says

    My favorite comment on the site so far:
    “VoyageOne1 (in the voice of David Attenborough)
    Ugly both internally and externally, a racist can be found in it’s natural habitat – the SUV. Seen sporting patriotic get-up, the racist is known for it’s irrationally shrill voice, short temper and a large round abdomen. This wild female in Pompano Beach, Florida can be seen attacking three young Brazilian males on the false assumption they are Middle Eastern homosexual paedophiles.”

  12. Solomon Steltzer says

    That’s amazing. The sheer level of vitriol and rage and…I don’t know what.

    It all sounded pretty nonsensical, although if I had to guess “You’re a Middle Eastern who hates Middle Easterns” is her way of saying “You guys, terrorists that you clearly are, are giving all the innocent brown people a bad name, and you know it. You are personally leading good, god-fearing Amurrcans like myself to hate and mistrust those poor people.”

    They were also a lot less scared of suddenly being run over than I would have been, were I in that situation.

    @12 – well, they did have a ‘proper’ video camera for their planned content, maybe the vertical aspect comes from using professional equipment so often that they don’t have much familiarity with mobile phone recording? :P
    Also, I agree, not a fan of comments on her weight, potential disability, etc. Or the cleanliness of her car, come to it. I can sympathise with the filmmakers making comments like that, in the heat of the moment when they’re under attack and trying to find some way to turn it around, but commenters like us, with the time to consider our responses, shouldn’t have to go there.
    Plenty to find appalling about this, without dragging in innocent people who share innocent (i.e non-racist) attributes with her.

  13. says

    Solomon Stelzer@14

    Given her comments later about how they want all the “middle easterns” to go to hell, I’m pretty sure that statement is more in reference to the PMD rapturist belief that the worst thing that you can do is not be Christian and thus not saved from the rapture. So, as “middle eastern terrorist gays” in her bigoted view, they were rejecting God and trying to keep him rejected in their “middle eastern terrorist gay” world, thus ensuring the damnation of millions by the totally awesome and not at all abusive God they worship, because they are turning away from Christianity to practice not Christianity.

    Thus, they hate “middle easterns” because they aren’t saving other “middle easterns” and teaching them the true word of Manchester City winger Jesus Navas and all that junk.

    Also, I’m pretty sure there was also a far amount of apeing right wing blowhards on TV, with shouting an invective over and over and then trying to accuse the other side of what you do and making sure the “other side” can’t get a word in edgewise. On TV, that’s bad enough, but in person, it’s a genuinely frightening form of harassment and means you have to suffer through a lot of garbage until the individual has run out of breath from their bigoted rant.

  14. Artor says

    Wow, that lady single-handedly stopped three Brazilian terrorists! She should get a medal!
    Umm… how many is a brazilian?

  15. zibble says

    There are people suggesting she’s mentally ill, but she sounds about as coherent as any other Trump supporter.

  16. bronwyncaveney says

    As someone who works at an airport, yes, you can take pictures and film. It is noticed though, and you might be under scrutiny. That being said, this woman was unhinged. she was so angry, and I wonder what set her off – just seeing the guys? As a lover of expletives, she sure had a lot of them coming out of her mouth – it sounded creepy to me, like exorcism videos filled with lots of naughty words. I like a few good naughty words, but this sounded really strange to me. Naughty words and Jesus are supposed to be like water and oil. Why did she pull up her car on the curb? Why not park normally? And what is with the consistent talk about fellatio?

    What is most disturbing to me is that she is allowed to drive. I don’t want to share the streets with someone like this.

  17. robro says

    I wonder what that is around her finger. Could it be a string? Does she need to remind herself to do something…perhaps something stupid and heinous, or pick up some more beer. Or maybe it’s a index finger ring. Perhaps those are fashionable in Florida now.

    I would have been worried she was armed. Florida is an open carry state now so it’s almost surprising she wasn’t packing. And it’s got that infamous “stand your ground” crap. She could have come out blazing, and then it wouldn’t be funny.

    I suppose it’s possible that disabled icon on the license plate doesn’t mean she’s disabled. It could be for someone else who drives that tank.

  18. Matrim says

    Just as an aside, please stop conflating mental illness and racism. Mental illness may make it more difficult to regulate racist behavior, but it doesn’t cause it. I’ve found that folks with mental illness break down along the same lines as folks without mental illness. Older folks tend to be more racist than young, upbringing and environment play into it just as much with each group, and both tend to be more egalitarian the more they are exposed to diversity.

  19. Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls says

    I suppose it’s possible that disabled icon on the license plate doesn’t mean she’s disabled. It could be for someone else who drives that tank.

    Absolutely. If we wanted to, because of the Redhead, we could have handicapped plates. Instead, we have a placard which only used when transporting the Redhead.
    I prefer to to park at the far end of the lot and walk. Unless it is raining like yesterday, but I didn’t have the placard, and it is illegal for me use it with her in the car.

  20. Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls says

    Dang, misspoke #24

    and it is illegal for me use it without with her in the car.

    Having both my father and the Redhead as victims of strokes, I eye all those cars parked in handicapped spots.

  21. opposablethumbs says

    While I double she knows or cares about events in my tiny little country somewhere far far away in NotTheUSAnianland and long long ago in the days of EvenBeforeYesterday, she would presumably have applauded the police who shot and killed Brazilian Londoner Jean-Charles de Menezes when he was nefariously hurrying to catch the tube.

    People who have the effrontery to be out in public while being other than milky white clearly have evil intent; if they didn’t, well, they’d make sure they were a lot whiter before leaving the house, wouldn’t they?

  22. opposablethumbs says

    … and how the hell did the word “doubt” get transmogrified into “double” between my keyboard and here? Seasonal gremlins????

  23. jrkrideau says

    @ 19 zibble

    There are people suggesting she’s mentally ill, but she sounds about as coherent as any other Trump supporter.

    I’m sorry, what is the difference?

    @ 22 robro

    I would have been worried she was armed.

    My thought too. I was under the impression that most USians carried a a couple of pistols and the odd assault rifle in their SUV. (Being slightly sarcastic)

  24. Beatrice, an amateur cynic looking for a happy thought says

    Oh come on, being a racist asshole is not the same as being mentally ill. Please please please think of mentally ill people when you use their health as an insult.

  25. Saad says

    A person going on a racist, xenophobic tirade?

    Let’s start shitting on mentally ill. Because they’ve had it too easy for too long!

  26. davebot says

    Don’t you guys know a fake video when you see it? Richard Dawkins told me Islam is not a race therefore this can’t have actually happened. Checkmate SJWs.

  27. karpad says

    I’m actually still kind of concerned about her, not even from a mental health standpoint (because calling her mentally ill is in fact a shitty thing to do). The whole thing is just so agitated and incoherent I think there’s something else going on, like something else ruined her day something fierce and she (like an asshole) decided to take it out on someone who didn’t do anything.

    She’s almost certainly not actually mentally ill (at least not in a way that’s actually relevant), but she does have a worldview warped by lies, anger management problems, and probably some other weird or unpleasant things going on in her life.

    Which, without actually being mental illness, is still cause for concern.

  28. Owlmirror says

    I found myself trying to unpick all of the backwards logic that was packed into that tirade . . .

    Middle Eastern people are brown. Therefore, those brown people are Middle Eastern.
    Those Middle Eastern people are filming in front of an airport. 9-11 involved airports and airplanes. Therefore, those Middle Eastern people are doing something similar to or related to 9-11 (re-enacting? re-creating? celebrating?).
    9-11 was a terrorist attack. Therefore, the only reason Middle Eastern people would be trying to do something similar to or related to 9-11 is if they are terrorists. Therefore, those Middle Eastern people are terrorists.
    Those Middle Eastern terrorists are both male; both the same sex. Homosexual males are the same sex. Therefore, those Middle Eastern terrorists are both homosexuals.
    Homosexuals are pedophiles. Therefore, those Middle Eastern terrorist homosexuals are pedophiles. (This last is probably informed by more garbage logic and bigoted ideas which I am too disheartened to try to expand out)

    Ow. I have a headache now.

    It also occurred to me that the two filmmakers might well be able to sue the woman for slander (and/or libel, if she did indeed post to Facebook about them), specifically for her accusations of terrorism and pedophilia.

    Solomon Steltzer @#14:

    It all sounded pretty nonsensical, although if I had to guess “You’re a Middle Eastern who hates Middle Easterns” is her way of saying “You guys, terrorists that you clearly are, are giving all the innocent brown people a bad name, and you know it. You are personally leading good, god-fearing Amurrcans like myself to hate and mistrust those poor people.”

    Cerebus @#15:

    Given her comments later about how they want all the “middle easterns” to go to hell, I’m pretty sure that statement is more in reference to the PMD rapturist belief that the worst thing that you can do is not be Christian and thus not saved from the rapture. So, as “middle eastern terrorist gays” in her bigoted view, they were rejecting God and trying to keep him rejected in their “middle eastern terrorist gay” world, thus ensuring the damnation of millions by the totally awesome and not at all abusive God they worship, because they are turning away from Christianity to practice not Christianity.

    Thus, they hate “middle easterns” because they aren’t saving other “middle easterns” and teaching them the true word of Manchester City winger Jesus Navas and all that junk.

    My own thought — which I realize could be wrong — is that she had heard that ISIS/Daesh/ISIL also targeted other Muslims, as well as Christians and Yazidis. She seemed far too enraged to recall all of the words for those groups, so what came out was Middle Easterners who hate Middle Easterners.

    So, one more backwards logic:

    ISIS/Daesh/ISIL hates and kills other Middle Easterner Muslims, Christians, and Yazidis. ISIS/Daesh/ISIL wants to perform terrorist acts in the USA. Those Middle Eastern terrorist homosexual pedophiles are in the USA preparing for (something related to) a terrorist attack. Therefore, those Middle Eastern terrorist homosexual pedophiles are members of (or sympathizers with) ISIS/Daesh/ISIL, and therefore they hate and want to kill other Middle Easterner Muslims, Christians, and Yazidis.

    It’s like a never-ending fountain spewing wrongness.

  29. congenital cynic says

    One marvels at the high concentration of idiocy. I would have been worried that she was going to try to run them over. Hadn’t thought that she might have a gun, but yeah, that would be a worry in Florida. She has such a thing for talking about fellatio. I thought that good Christians were not supposed to have potty mouths.

  30. blf says

    I found myself trying to unpick all of the backwards logic that was packed into that tirade

    Don Quixote just called, and asks that you leave a windmill for him to charge.

  31. mykroft says

    No defense for this kind of behavior, but part of the terrorist kill chain is to do reconnaissance on potential targets; identify access points, level and type of security, etc.

    The problem is that we are currently lurching towards a Big Brother society. The Republican candidates already believe that “war is peace” (kill the terrorists before they come here!), and “freedom is slavery” (Carson has already compared a woman’s freedom to choose as akin to slavery). “Ignorance is strength” certainly works for the Republican party (aka appealing to the base), so to me it looks like the Republicans would build a Ministry of Truth right now if they could. Keep going down this road, and we’ll reach 1984 before you know it.

  32. randay says

    I can’t watch it a second time, but as I remember one of the Brazilians told her she was wearing an African T-shirt. She responded that they were Xians over there, obviously not knowing that in Northern Africa they are mostly Muslim.

    I think it perfectly alright to note that she is FAT and a sloppy pig. Sorry PC’ers, but those are the facts. Apparently it is alright to call someone mentally ill, which is not obvious, but it is wrong to call someone fat when it is obvious that they are. She should be on a Southern Redneck calendar.

  33. chigau (違う) says

    randay #42
    Now explain to us what her weight and clothing have to do with her behaviour.

  34. says

    randay @42: Well, I’m fat but I don’t go around ranting at random Brazilians. Her weight probably doesn’t have a lot to do with her reprehensible behaviour.

  35. says

    I’m actually still kind of concerned about her, not even from a mental health standpoint (because calling her mentally ill is in fact a shitty thing to do). The whole thing is just so agitated and incoherent I think there’s something else going on, like something else ruined her day something fierce and she (like an asshole) decided to take it out on someone who didn’t do anything.

    At which point I’m going so fucking what? She decided to take it out on three innocent bystanders. I’m concerned about her kids or pets or whichever innocent and vulnerable creature might get into her way. Because the only reason those guys could have a good laugh at her was because they were three men and she was one woman (apparently unarmed or not willing to shoot, thankfully). Reverse the genders or add a gun and the whole thing looks a lot different…

  36. slithey tove (twas brillig (stevem)) says

    no armchair diagnoses necessary. She was just a racist, homophobic, et al, asshat. Could not even park her car safely, left its tail hanging out in lane with the front over the curb on the grass. She allowed herself sloppy parking, being it so important to immediately insult those camera gays taking pornovids of those phallic planes flying in (and out).
    Regardless of anything else, her behavior was pure over-the-top obnoxious.

  37. throwaway, butcher of tongues, mauler of metaphor says

    randay

    I think it perfectly alright to note that she is FAT and a sloppy pig. Sorry PC’ers, but those are the facts.

    Yes, it’s perfectly alright to note the appearance of someone. It’s not alright to make the connection between that appearance and the abhorrent views espoused by that person.

    Why does PZ keep Randay around?

  38. says

    I know Randay is gone, but…

    I think it perfectly alright to note that she is FAT and a sloppy pig. Sorry PC’ers, but those are the facts.

    Facts? No, they aren’t. Yes, the woman is overweight, which is not remotely relevant. Where in the fuck are you getting “sloppy pig” from? The woman is clean and groomed, so it looks like the only place your “facts” come from is your rather appalling bigotry.

  39. chigau (違う) says

    Caine
    Her car is full of garbage. The camera-guys call her a ‘hoarder’.
    Our Brazilian heroes, like randay, learned to classify people from watching USAian junkreality TV.

  40. says

    Chigau @ 51:

    Her car is full of garbage.

    Having a car full of junk or trash is hardly uncommon, so I suppose it didn’t much register with me. Even if someone wants to classify her as sloppy, it has no relevance whatsoever to her bigotry. (Just in case Randay stops back by.)

  41. chigau (違う) says

    and as long as we are at the end of this thread
    her t-shirt is ‘African’??
    because Bison bison are found in Africa?

  42. Owlmirror says

    chigau @#53:

    her t-shirt is ‘African’??
    because Bison bison are found in Africa?

    The art on the front looked to me like it was meant to evoke First Nations/Amerindian themes, with the buffalo bison and the wings/tailfeathers, and the glyphs between the wings and feathers (stylized lightning bolts? So maybe a Thunderbird motif?).

    The line about Africa, though, comes from the speaker not holding the camera who seems to be looking at the back, and at 134 seconds (2:14), she turns and shows the back to the camera no longer obscured by her hair, and there is a black hand on a stylized sun in a circle, which I guess might look like (some sort of subSaharan?) African art?

    Anyway, she doesn’t correct him, but instead rolls with it. “That’s right, that’s not you, Africa loves God, you don’t love God [blah blah blah]”

  43. says

    Having a car full of junk or trash is hardly uncommon, so I suppose it didn’t much register with me. Even if someone wants to classify her as sloppy, it has no relevance whatsoever to her bigotry.

    Yep. Reading some of the comments here, I must be just as aweful as that woman because I’m fat (I’m much heavier than this woman, so I’m probably worse) AND my car is usually a mess.
    Stupid, sloppy, fat woman that I am I think I’m entitled to some rest, and a cuppa coffee, and maybe a bit of leisure time at the end of the day instead of turning my body into the perfect sex object and cleaning my car (hopefully in a bikini to show off my body for the benefit of the dudes).
    Really, why talk about her bigotry, her racism, her homophobia when we can talk about her being fat and having an untidy car?

  44. leni says

    The reason I thought she was mentally ill had less to do with the racism and more to do with the disorganized thinking and confused, paranoid ranting. She does seem drunk to me, but I’m guessing if she’s driving around drunk/high and harassing strangers she’s probably got some bigger issues than “racist problem drinker”.

    I don’t know. I’m not trying to diagnose her, but there were some major red flags there for me. It made it all that much harder to watch because I kept wondering what her life must be like if she acts like this on regular basis. I can’t even imagine what she unleashes on the people close to her. Whatever is going here, something is clearly very wrong (aside from her being a huge asshole) and I hope she can get some help for it. It won’t make her magically not an asshole, but even assholes deserve help sometimes. Especially if it makes everyone around them safer.