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Boo!-per Lund
@cooperlund.online

I a just old enough to remember what the aftermath of 9/11 was like, and even then a member of the Bush administration saying something this Islamophobic would have been unthinkable. Sure they still thought these things but getting rid of the norms that kept them from saying it has been awful.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

Boo!-per Lund
@cooperlund.online

Much like a world with fake-ass corporate Pride merch, I would much rather live in a country where both sides at least pay lip service to everyone being an American over a mask off one like this because taking the mask off is a sign something has gone wrong.

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Grog
@grogofgrog.bsky.social

Perhaps I'm being naive, but I sense this kind of thing facilitates someone very personable and very politically adept one day convincing the various players in the middle east that perhaps fighting amongst each other is neither logical nor profitable.