Because when no one understands *why* the world is the way it is, it's very easy for Donald Trump to get on stage and tell voters all about those icky, scary Muslims and how he'll protect us from them.
This is exactly why we should oppose the selective teaching of history, and exactly why the far right fights so hard to whitewash it.
Does that justify 9/11? No. But it also doesn't justify tens of thousands dead in Palestine and Afghanistan, either.
I can't stand listening to most Americans talk about the Middle East. We created our own enemy during the Cold War, and 90% of our problems since then have been entirely self-inflicted.
The right has now managed to make Helene about immigrants too. It'd almost be impressive if it wasn't so sick. Meanwhile, they're (somehow) still living in willful denial of the single most significant contributing factor of natural disasters.
Got dang Commies! They've invaded my garage with their blue jeans and their pop music! *EAGLE SCREECH*
(I'm okay. It's more the "my brain is running a billion miles an hour and accomplishing absolutely nothing" sort of day.)
"Dude you're a mess today. "I'm always a mess. Some days I just hide it better."
This is where state-sanctioned hatred always leads.
Georgia the country, not the state, but I've posted it because Georgia's anti-LGBTQ law is modeled after Russia's recent "gay propaganda" law--a law inspired by and explicitly intended to win over the American far right. Putin himself even invoked the myth of "wokeness" in arguing for the bill.
The popular online influencer was a critic of the government and had over 500,000 Instagram followers.