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The “why can’t I criticize the religion stuck in the Middle Ages”

These are the most obnoxious for me. While I am not a fan of any religion, the people that start with the middle ages crap are basically always arguing in bad faith or without the context that is vital. Islam is also what this type of people use to justify US intervention in regions like Iran; just say that Iranis are religious fanatics that will nuke the world at the first chance they get; it's the perfect narrative: dehumanize them and, at the same time, make them appear to be a big threat to "world peace" i.e. US hegemony.

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.

Sort of, but the "lower levels" were still very high. Maybe "glass" wasn't the word, but there was plenty of dehumanization and demonization of Iranis, Palestinians, Somalis, Syrians, for example.

Here's how I think of it: westerners' fear and hatred of Muslims, brown and black people, middle easterners, west Asians, MENA, however you want to describe these groups as, was always there. It would get louder whenever something happened that reminded westerners that people in these groups etc exist, and quieter when they could ignore us. Refugees going to Europe fleeing NATO foreign policy in the 2010 made islamophobia levels appear higher in Europe than 9/11 did because the Euros weren't as directly involved.

“why can’t I criticize the religion stuck in the Middle Ages”

Because you're a piece of shit that supported genocide, you're not on a moral high ground here and you never ever will be again.

Between the hateful Christians, the bumbling Republican president, the failing economy, the incompetent Democrats, and the virulent xenophobia, yeah it feels a lot like the bush years

If liberals were half as opposed to genocide as they pretend to be, they'd give Islam at least a temporary pass for being the nexus of resistance to an ongoing genocide.

Beyond just Islamophobia, it’s like the 2000s but worse.

Look at Twitter and how everyone is so fucking mean for no reason. I’ll spare y’all the rant, but one look at Twitter tells me everything I need to know about Americans.

And people wonder why I'm "asocial"...

dunno bro. My ma she was working at university. International admissions office. The idiots there were making life hell for african and arab students. One day they made a joke. "You know what's cuter than a baby in a stroller? An arab in a coffin lmao". She resigned on the spot. It all comes from algerian war in the french speaking world at least. Look up what the gegene was (or dont if you're sensible to torture really). My grandpa warned me about "those people". Now wifu's arab. Thanks grandpa you were an asshole anyway

But yeah there was some talk about how theres "too much of them" at family dinner. Time to trim the family tree lmao

It's feeling increasingly like 2002-2003 to me, except the economy is somehow pre-dotcom crash. Trump standing in front of a big sign that said PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST gave big vibes

I was looking at some rad fem posts on reddit. They were complaining how liberal feminism was enabling Islamic oppression. Quite unaware that You are allowed to criticise Islam because liberal feminism. If you were talking about how oppressive Judaism is during 1943, most peaceful feminist alive would have kicked you in the jaw