[quote name='smellhasreturned']Daivari has also suggested, however, that he is not playing a 100% fictional character, and that Arab-Americans are legitimately discriminated against in the US on a daily basis.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, Daivari's such a champion for Arab-Americans everywhere. I used to think all brown people were terrorists, including sicilians named Mark. Having watched the intellectually stimulating portrayal of Arab-Americans on WWE tv has enlightened me that they are not all terrorists. But they are all bad people, who should be destroyed because they hate America.
Dude, Daivari's heart picks up every time he gets to cash his WWE check. His job was to make people hate him, and part of the reason he was to be hated was because he got on the mic and screamed some nonsense in Farsi, and because he's a brown person. Do you hate JBL because he's white? Does it have anything to do with his character? Hassan and Daivari make their money getting people to boo them because they play Arabs.
Hassan and Daivari, as characters, are upset because of the discrimination they experienced in America post-9/11. Is that legit? For Daivari, that's probably a certainty, since he's ethnically legit anyway. The thing is, he can defend his job all he wants, but he's lying to himself. He's not doing anything except reminded good red-blooded Americans that they're supposed to hate Arabs.
Was it smell who pointed out the absurdity in Hassan/Daivari wrestling Regal/Tajiri, and the crowd chanting "USA!" as a means of expressing support for the British and the Japanese people, and to irritate the two guys from Detroit? That's what I'm talking about.
Daivari's a slave to the color green, at the expense of his dignity. And, in all reality, what could be more American than that?
I'd love to see how people would react to Hassan being placed in the FBI, assuming that Vito and Nunzio reform it. At least he'd have a reason for being there.