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Vivian Schiller, the CEO of NPR, is an idiot. When Juan Williams voiced personal feelings about sitting on an airplane with passengers in Muslim garb, he was saying exactly what the overwhelming majority of sane Americans would say. Idiot Schiller implied that Williams should see a psychiatrist to deal with those feelings ¹. OK, let us apply the same logic to other groups of people.

• You are a Jew sitting in a cafe in Munich, Germany and a group of skinheads with swastikas carved onto their foreheads sit down in the table next to you, if you get worried, if you get nervous, then you need to see a psychiatrist to deal with those feelings, you paranoid, racist bigot.
• You are a young woman waiting for a bus late at night, and a group of playful young men sporting the marks of a local gang surround you (see photo above), if you get worried, if you get nervous, then you need to see a psychiatrist to deal with those feelings, you paranoid, racist bigot.
• You are a DEA agent working undercover in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico enjoying a bottle of serveza when 6 heavily armed men come in and sit down next to you, if you get worried, if you get nervous, then you need to see a psychiatrist to deal with those feelings, you paranoid, racist bigot.