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minus-squareceenote@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days 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-up0·11 days 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-up0·11 days agoYeah, but, you know, all those desert-dwellers are the same.
minus-squareceenote@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-211 days agoA 12-year old American in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 doesn’t make that distinction.
minus-squareGuy Ingonito@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoIf you asked me at 12 how many middle eastern countries I could name I would’ve said: India, Pakistan and Abudabi
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