On Piers Morgan Uncensored, Schlapp was part of a panel discussion about the war in Iran and the bombing of the girls’ school that killed an estimated 175 people (nearly all young children). Journalist Peter Beinart argued to host Morgan that the United States and Israel were to blame even if the school was somehow hit by an Iranian missile.
“We know that if the U.S. and Israel had not attacked a country that poses no serious threat to them—Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons, America has thousands—that those girls would be alive,” Beinart said. Schlapp immediately jumped in.
“They’d be alive in a burqa,” Schlapp said, adding “this is … a barbaric society,” before Morgan cut in and asked him to “hang on.”
There are so many levels of racism here that I’m just aghast. Justification of child murder en masse, conflation of the burqa with all Muslim countries, and the sheer arrogance of an American calling Iran a “barbaric society.”
White chauvinism (of any stripe) may just be the stupidest ideology ever wrought upon this godsforsaken planet. The idea that a civilization that was producing works of art and science while this idiot’s ancestors were busy whacking each other over the head with swords and not bathing is the “barbaric” one is so easily disproven with even the most casual investigation.