I Love This Game

I caught tonight's episode of WWE (nee WWF) Monday Night Raw.

It turns out there's a new villian---a "heel" in industry talk---by the name of Mohammed Hassan. His shtick is that he's an aggrieved Arab-American beset by anti-Arab discrimination. The catch: he and his associate Daivari often switch into their native tongue to give their performance that authentic feel; except that their native tongue is Farsi, not Arabic. (E.g., After Hassan sucker-punched Chris Benoit, Daivari started screaming "Hich nisti, hich nisti," which means, in Persian "you are nothing, you are nothing.")

Best thing ever: Hassan got roundly booed by the crowd at Penn State for appealing for racial equality. I know he's a bad-guy, and thus elicits a negative response by definition, but you'd think people might have had more reservations about hissing at the idea that "all men are created equal."