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[–] Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml 66 points 2 years ago (2 children)

once again fearmongering leads the sheltered white world to believe that anything that resembles the "enemy" is actually the enemy.

a 6-year-old boy and his mother were stabbed in Illinois, leaving his mother in the hospital and the boy dead. Just because our media has to fearmonger about the scary brown people.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I think that attack is worse than the Islamophobia I saw after 9/11, I don't remember anyone getting killed.

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There was definitely several even in the immeadiate aftermath sadly. Mostly convenience store workers, Sikhs mistaken for Muslims (racists are evil, but not smart), and I think a young woman was stabbed getting off the metro/light rail somewhere.

Edit: this article rounds up some of the murders and serious hate crimes

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Adults were murdered for either being or looking Muslim but no children as far as I remember

This definitely seems worse or maybe more concentrated would be a better word for it, people in general are a bit less Islamophobic than post 9/11 but those who support the genocide are way more deranged to make up for it

Something like that, it's hard to tell

[–] ferristriangle@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think that this also partially reflects a change in how media worked 20+ years ago and today.

The way most people were exposed to current events 20+ years ago was through a small handful of television news outlets, and if you were trying to manufacture consent for something and drum up some pro-war rhetoric you could get large portions of the country on the same page through the relatively small number of media sources that covered ~90% of America's exposure to the news.

Now in the social media era the ways in which people consume news/current events is much more splintered and fractured. Which makes it harder to get everyone marching to the beat of the same drum, but it also means you can create content specifically tailored to inflame the worst impulses of whichever micro-demographic you're trying to target without having to worry about your messaging needing to have mass appeal because you're not trying to make sure that your broadcast network keeps its audience.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Sikhs were getting murdered because Islamophobes think brown man with turban = Muslim. It was way worse in the immediate aftermath.

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago
[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The UK colonized Palestine for a while. Maybe it's about time for the inverse.

[–] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Palestinian Mandate of Britain will be instituted. And it will remain until the British are sufficiently civilized to the point they can finally handle self-rule.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

The Palestinian Mandate of Britain will be instituted. And it will remain until the British are sufficiently civilized to the point they can finally handle self-rule.

Revolutionary Brits repelling their colonizers by speaking British at them.

"Oy yoo lot, wot or yoo dooin rawnd 'ere den? Don' muck abawt, cleer off den!"

[–] daisy@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No, no, the UK belongs to Romans. Romans were there around 2000 years ago, that gives them an absolute claim to the place, and those living there now will just have to go somewhere else.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Return South Wales to the Silures people!

Pictish landback for Scotland!

Deport the English to Saxony!

[–] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

We need to start offering Italian birthrights to London!

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Imprison them in the Isle of Man

Not just Palestine tho, everyone gets a turn

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

I want to see a Kelly comic of this so bad

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

'Selfish Paragliders' is an increible bit of kelly mindset

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Selfish Paragliders*

* latest fad

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

doncaster is a very silly place

[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh we don't go to the mall anymore. That cinnabon line in the food court is just begging to get blown up by Al-Qaeda grillman

[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

When they said "from the river to the sea" i didnt know they meant the North Sea but I'm not complaining

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

Would be pretty cool if they did

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Breezewood PA's Dairy Queen invaded by an army of Hamas technicals.

[–] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

After Storming the Winter Palace except they're marveling at how incredibly soulless and shitty everything is

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

lmao amazing

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Stealing the fuck out of that

may the flood swallow terf island whole

[–] wahwahwah@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Next day on Hexbear: "Mayo-american mistakes Mexican paraglider for Palestinian, shoots dead from property."

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Um....for those of us who haven't kept up with advancements in paraglider technology, have they actually made the current generation of intercontinental paragliders available for the consumer market? I'm hoping they kept some QoL features in, like a cup holder or a small pocket for phones.

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

The only acceptable two state solution is turning England into Palestine's colony