America, the land that forgets, when it's convenient to do so.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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On September 12 a Sikh gas station owner the next town over was savagely beaten to an inch from death because his attackers thought he was a Muslim

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I want the America of September 12th, 2001 back. There was no party. There was no color or race. There was only unity. There was only freedom loving Americans.

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[FiveGoodMen]

1. "There was only freedom loving Americans."

Actually, there were calls for nukes pretty damned soon afterward.

And the ramp-up to war on false pretenses.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Most of the damage inflicted on us post 9/11 was self inflicted...

[guillaumeb]

3. Did Tim forget about lynchings,

and the near genocide of the First Peoples, and slavery, and Nixon and Reagan running on racism?

[Girard442]

4. "I want something really horrible to happen again so we'll all be too scared to disagree on things."

Isn't that what people are really saying?

[TheRealNorth]

5. For a brief moment we came together

However, the Republicans very quickly exploited 9-11 to pursue their neoconservative foreign policy agenda and to go after Democrats that tried to defend the rights of Muslim Americans (and all Americans, when it came to things like the Patriot Act).