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    1 year ago

    why were all Muslims everywhere suddenly terrorists?

    They weren’t. The people who said they were, were being shitty people.

    why were all Chinese people being targeted, attacked and killed on US streets?

    This was actually really rare, and while it was terrible where it happened, it’s a mistake to pretend that it was at all common, typical, or accepted.


    As an analogy that may be even more contentious: Rape happens. It’s bad. When it does, it’s usually a man raping a woman. But it’s a mistake to say that all men rape all women; and anyone saying that men are all rapists is expressing their own trauma, not the truth.

    People are real. Nations and other interest groups are kinda fake.