‘People were polite, parents would shake my hand’: Canadian college blogger who wore a hijab for 18 days to reveal how racist her community is – finds people are actually NICER to her

Well, right off the bat, this is silly for the simple reason that wearing Muslim garb is not restricted to any particular race.

But it gets dumber:

‘It can be that someone actually does harbour [sic] racist tendencies but doesn’t want to look racist to others so they overcompensate in that way,’ she says.

She also says that it could stem from people who might think they have a bias but are trying to suppress it by being overly accommodating to people of other races or religions.

So: by being nice, you’re just proving that you are a racist (against the Muslim race, it would seem). I believe it’s fair to say that someone who was rude, mean or otherwise unfriendly to her would also be declared racist. So, no matter what the actual results were going to be, the conclusion was always going to be that “people are racists.”

Of course, Fark.com has a number of good comments on this story, the first being:

Sure they were nicer. They were afraid she’d blow up the place.