Adding “Tiktok Mary Poppins cosplayer respond to allegations that he was wearing a Third Reich medal in his latest fit by coming out as the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler complete with past life memories before his entire social media prescence was nuked with the sole exception of their egg-laying kink spotify playlists” to the internet sentences treasure vault. Amid all the societal decay we still got it boys.
Some of y'all weren’t alive in the very early 2000s or weren’t aware enough of things that were happening
The jingoism and islamophobia that followed 9/11, the unquestioning support lent to whatever the fuck Bush wanted to do, was terrifying. Musicians and artists who spoke out in protest of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were blacklisted and harassed and threatened. France, for the crime of being slightly more reasonable than the USA, was treated like an enemy rather than one of America’s oldest and closest allies. We called French fries “freedom fries” to spite them.
So when I tell you that the backlash to people voicing support for Palestine is worse, please understand how fucking bad that is. And please don’t let that scare you away from vocally opposing the ongoing genocide against the people of Palestine.