• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Tbf your entire country was all for Muslim extermination from 2001 till recently. Most Americans in 2002 would have told you to wipe Palestine off the map

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        8 months ago

        I dunno. I was a young man on 9/11, and the general vibe seemed to be that anyone who wanted to hate anyone from the middle east was not facing any pushback.

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            8 months ago

            A lefty city in the PNW. Even there it was considered acceptable to talk mad shit on anyone from an Arab country

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              Im not saying that didn’t happen but it’s very surprising, I never experienced that in Seattle. In Seattle academia/institutions, theu usually doubled down on diversity rhetoric, and I’ve yet to see anyone push back on it.