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minus-squareceenotelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down2·1 month agoWhen I was a kid in the wake of 9/11, I wouldn’t have been able to believe I’d someday feel morally inferior to the Iranian government…
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down3·1 month agoProbably true, but Iran wasn’t significantly involved in 9/11 so you probably wouldn’t have been considering that.
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoYeah, but, you know, all those desert-dwellers are the same.
minus-squareceenotelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·edit-21 month agoA 12-year old American in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 doesn’t make that distinction.
minus-squareGuy Ingonito@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoIf you asked me at 12 how many middle eastern countries I could name I would’ve said: India, Pakistan and Abudabi
minus-squareExtremeUnicorn@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWhich isn’t a number, anyway.
When I was a kid in the wake of 9/11, I wouldn’t have been able to believe I’d someday feel morally inferior to the Iranian government…
Probably true, but Iran wasn’t significantly involved in 9/11 so you probably wouldn’t have been considering that.
Yeah, but, you know, all those desert-dwellers are the same.
A 12-year old American in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 doesn’t make that distinction.
If you asked me at 12 how many middle eastern countries I could name I would’ve said: India, Pakistan and Abudabi
Which isn’t a number, anyway.