I mean, if they were in Texas they probably have a reason to worry
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friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 15 hours agoI had a job in Colorado at a small 20-30 person company, including two devout muslim immigrant men from Afghanistan. OMG, they were freaking the fuck out, thinking people were going to come drag them out of the office and murder them in the parking lot. Everybody had their back and tried to calm them down, but boy, they were so stressed out.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
jim_v@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Not sure why you were downvoted. Looks like some people forgot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Arab_racism
“In the United States, anti-Arab racism surged after the September 11 attacks, resulting in widespread racial profiling and hate crimes against Arab Americans.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Arab_racism#United_States
“According to the FBI and Arab groups, the number of attacks against Arabs and Muslims, as well as others mistaken for them, rose considerably after the 9/11 attacks. Hate crimes against people of Middle Eastern origin or descent increased from 354 attacks in 2000, to 1,501 attacks in 2001. Among the victims of the backlash was a Middle Eastern man in Houston, Texas who was shot and wounded after an assailant accused him of “blowing up the country”, and four immigrants shot and killed by a man named Larme Price, who confessed to killing them as revenge for the September 11 attacks.”
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Thank you!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
they still had cause to worry in Colorado. people were fucking crazy
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Very true
protist@retrofed.com 9 hours ago
I lived in Austin at the time and recall very clearly an effort to rally around and support the Arabic/Islamic communites
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Americans went nuts after 9/11. It was weird how all of a sudden, it was ok to be openly racist. Up to then, I knew older people were racist, but were being shamed into keeping quiet and it was fading from younger generations, but 9/11 set all that back. They were right to be scared.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Had a French teacher in high school who was from Morocco, and Muslim. He had some pretty harrowing stories from the years following 9/11. The most extreme of them involved him and his family being targeted in a drive-by shooting. Said some of the rounds missed his daughter by inches where she was sleeping. Recounted the feeling of being hunted as prey by bat-guano crazy rednecks…
That vibe quieted down by the 2010s, but now it’s come roaring back. MAGA is like three 9/11s in a trench coat.