Looking at America spiraling down into racisme, hate, etc... as a non-american is like reading a Lovecraftian tale: starring into the abyss of contempt, chaos, and bigotry… it also makes me sad.
We've known about these things for a long time, but our public education system doesn't adequately teach people our history in most states (because the curriculum is controlled at the state level). I'm well read in history and I didn't learn about the Tulsa Massacre until my early 30's, reading a history book for my own personal enjoyment. That should have absolutely been part of the history curriculum I was taught about the history of civil rights in this country, but it wasn't.
Obama's presidency marked a major cultural shift, where things that people may have tolerated previously were (rightly) no longer acceptable. Trump's presidency marked an equal and opposite shift in the other direction, where people, looking at Trump's example, understood free speech to mean they could say whatever they wish without any form of accountability.
The easiest way to say it is that our country's relationship to race is complicated.
This is the document that neo-cons presented publicly before perpetrating the events of 9/11.
It illustrates faking an attack on the homeland to scare the American people into giving up freedoms and backing a blank check to the military to attack a variety of targets. The original printed document had a picture of the twin towers with a plane flying at them with crosshairs over them. Conveniently cant find that image anymore, like I cant find 90% of the footage of the 9/11 attacks that I studied right after the event.
Ever wonder why we were told that Bin Laden was the target, Bin Laden was in Afghanistan, but we invaded Iraq? All explained in this document. He was a protected fall guy, and we weren't retaliating to 9/11, 9/11 was simply used as an excuse to attack predetermined targets.
Since then it has been a slow burn, and we now officially have voters who weren't born, never saw the world before 9/11, and don't know any better than to blindly believe the people who plunged this country into its current condition.
Please, stop spreading this misinformation and conspiracy theory garbage.
As someone who has lived though the events of 9/11; I can assure you that they reported that Osama Bin Laden and his followers did in fact flee to Iraq.
The testimony of the congress members that voted for a war on Afghanistan and then were confused about how the vote was actually aimed at Iraq never existed, right?
Let's completely ignore how congress voted AGAINST war, but then Bush Jr ordered the military to invade anyway, and he still has not faced consequence (other than being relegated to painting in the bath tub because if he moves around too much, the Hague might catch him... and they are still trying to catch him).
You are wholesale ignoring the document I provided.
Isn't it convenient we never saw Osama Bin Laden's body?
The US made sure we saw Saddam swinging, but we got zero proof of the revenge we got for 9/11?
You are the problem this thread is calling out. Stupid people playing make pretend and revising history as they see fit because they don't like the recounts of those who were paying attention.