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Since the incident, Thanasi Papoulias (one of the Greek speakers in the video) has decided to show his gratitude toward the store manager who stepped in to defend him and his wife — by setting up a GoFundMe to send her to Greece. In two days, the fundraiser has met about one-third of its $6,000 goal. Read more

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“That language is not allowed in this store.” WTF????????

This was almost certainly Islamophobia. Greek people get hit with it a fair amount in the United States. There was a pretty horrifying example I remember from a few years ago. 

Tampa police: Marine reservist attacked Greek priest he mistook for terrorist

That man, a Greek Orthodox priest named Father Alexios Marakis, speaks little English and was lost, police said. He wanted directions.

What the priest got instead, police say, was a tire iron to the head. Then he was chased for three blocks and pinned to the ground — as the Marine kept a 911 operator on the phone, saying he had captured a terrorist.

Anyway, remember when I said that “whiteness is a social construct that can be given and taken away”?

Welcome to that. 

just remembered how i went to wet n wild with my brother when i was about 8 and these two youths started shouting at my bro (who was on the phone speaking greek with baba) to speak english

and about a year and a half ago the family was out and this guy heard us speaking greek and started raving about ‘wogs stealing jobs’