Well, I’m sorry, but it is. 9/11 kinda shocked everybody, but nobody was on board with hating Muslims at that point or anything. But then we invaded Iraq, for no reason except those guy’s wishes.
But then — Bush/Cheney — what did they do? They whipped up anti-Muslim, and anti-other sentiment (with the help of the complicit media — let’s never forget them), to the point where xenophobia again became a thing in this country, not seen since the height of lynch mob hysteria here in the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s.
We had a little while where that was not a thing. But it was in my youth, for sure. Lynch mobs murdering people of color, and everybody taking pictures like it was a picnic or something. And now we are back to that. Thanks a lot, GWB and Darth Cheney, ASSHOLES.
You guys invaded Iraq for no reason, destabilized the Middle East, thus making it chaos there, and producing floods of refugees into Europe (and now Europeans are discovering THEIR inner assholes on account of all this) and turned American citizens against each other by race. It makes me sick.
And ISIS. OMG ISIS. You bastards CREATED ISIS. For your own foul purposes. ISIS was formed from the remains of Saddam’s old Baathist guard. And you put them out of work and set them loose to wreak the havoc they have. And we can see the results every damn day.
And succeeded in militarizing our police, to the point where now our police force is so paranoid they shoot to kill anybody just trying to get their damn wallet out of their pocket.
BLM, I don’t think you’re taking the right tack, exactly. I think you should be out trying to register people to vote and get politically involved, instead of trying to close down freeways and incite riots. But I do understand your feelings.
It’s ALL those PNAC bastards’ damn fault.
My sister went and repeated this rant of mine (after filing off the serial numbers) at the Eagles where she works (they’re all rabid Republicans, she’s a Democrat). A surprising number of people there agreed with her. So maybe there’s hope.