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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world āØ12ā© āØhoursā© agoAmericans 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 āØ11ā© āØhoursā© 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 rednecksā¦
That vibe quieted down by the 2010s, but now itās come roaring back. MAGA is like three 9/11s in a trench coat.