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Feels like the Bush era with the amount of Islamophobia I’m seeing (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Maybe this is ignorant bc Islamophobia never went away or anything but it definitely feels like there was a real peak of Islamophobia during the Bush era and after Osama bin Laden was assasinated it sort of dropped off to lower levels. It’d come back at various times (eg Charlie Hebdo) and maybe I was in a bubble but I never heard “we should glass the Middle East” told as a half joke half actual position after 2011 until the recent genocide in Gaza. But it’s really been feeling like the Bush era recently. The “why can’t I criticize the religion stuck in the Middle Ages” from critics of religion, like the new atheists back in the day, the (actual) cancel culture. Idk i doubt im the first to notice this but just something I was thinking of today.

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lol yeah. If you search through my comments you'll find I've been saying it feels like they've rebooted the "Post 9-11 World" for almost 4 years now. All the shit the privacy centered, left leaning folks were saying was gonna happen due to Bush era changes have basically happened. The details might be off, but they nailed the general arc.

Edit: for you kids out there. Back in the Bush era, "Post 9-11 World" was THE thought terminating epithet. You'd ask a politician if maybe cops shouldn't be doing a 'papers, please' to every light brown skinned person they see and all they'd have to do is start of by saying, "In this Post 9-11 World," and then bam they could get away with saying whatever they wanted.