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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  they still had cause to worry in Colorado. people were fucking crazy

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  • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Very true

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• jim_v@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.”

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  • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you!

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• protist@retrofed.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I lived in Austin at the time and recall very clearly an effort to rally around and support the Arabic/Islamic communites

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