#i also think ‘freedom fries’ and the change in country music to rabid nationalism and making kids watch it live on tv was fucking ridiculous | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

iliveinprocrasti-nationn · 1 year ago

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people online will be like “haha i will make 9/11 jokes because the american reaction to the event had many levels of irrationality” but will not confront the massive amounts of internalised islamophobia that arose from american propaganda justifying the ‘war on terror’ and the iran and iraq wars which was then compounded by a culturally christian society that portrays Islam to be inhumane and oppressive resulting in them now hearing that a muslim group is targeting a fanfic website for ‘degeneracy’ and ‘being usa based’ and then believing it without a second thought

#will y’all confront your shit before you try to laugh about something that had horrendous real world impacts just because you’re only #thinking of how it applied to you #i also think ‘freedom fries’ and the change in country music to rabid nationalism and making kids watch it live on tv was fucking ridiculous #but that’s not the only result from it #anyway moral of the story confront your shit and do some introspection #this is a conversation i had with my friend in middle schools at the back of a very poorly taught history class where the teacher was an ex #catholic who was still basically catholic except he wanted to divorce his first wife and didn’t like that they didn’t want him to so he left #catholicism. however he didn’t understand any other religion and we were the only two people in the class who were not Christian or #culturally Christian. we both learned a lot about each other and our cultures and experiences. we didn’t learn much history tho #both of us did always get 95-100 grades in that class for the three years we had that guy as a hisory teacher #Islamophobia #9/11

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