Muslims in America became targets after 9/11. White males are leading a coup against the United States government. No one is targeting them.
Think again.
Issue #806 The Choice, Thursday, February 13, 2025
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Remember how, after the attack of 9/11, dark-skinned, easily identifiable Muslims in America were persecuted? As if they, simply by being Muslim, were somehow responsible for the attack on America that dropped the Twin Towers? Because, after all, the guys who planned the attack were Muslim, so it only stood to reason that…
However, approximately 1.9 billion Muslims worldwide comprise roughly 24% of the world’s population. As of 2020, according to the U.S. Census, there were approximately 4.4 million Muslims in America.
So, were we assuming that they were all guilty? Just asking for a friend.
OK. Moving on. So, remember how Japanese Americans were rounded up and herded into internment camps during World War II beginning in February, 1942? Because, well, they were Japanese Americans. And since they looked a lot like the enemy that had attacked Pearl Harbor, then it only made sense that they should be considered suspect and that their loyalties must have been with the Japanese, even though they were Americans.
Sorry. Japanese Americans. Right. OK. Like I said, I'm just checking for a friend.
So, during both of these instances, Americans – white Americans in particular – seemed pretty united in their hatred of those other non-white, not American enough Americans who they considered a threat to America. Right?
If you were Japanese American during that period of World War II or visibly Muslim American around the time of 9/11, it was the worst time to be either because there’s never a good time to be a target for an enraged white mob in America, as we have seen time and again throughout history extending back through slavery.
It has never really mattered whether that rage was justifiable, only that white people were enraged and that somebody needed to pay the price for that self-righteous rage.
It was always about saving the purity of America from the less-than-pure. In the minds of the perpetually enraged, it has always been about protecting their America from us.
That MAGA slogan Make America Great Again really means Make America Great Again For White People By Getting Rid Of Or At Least Oppressing The Hell Out Of Everybody Else. Except that’s too much to fit on a hat.
Which might explain why, as we are witnessing the wholesale destruction of America by a white male Christian (well, he says he’s a Christian, but…) who has been elected President of the United States for the second time, we aren’t seeing the same kind of widespread enraged random attacks against white Christian males.
For that matter, we didn’t see a parallel response after Very White Timothy McVeigh, ex-Army soldier and security guard, blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
Sure, there was a lot of grieving and hand-wringing. Still, nobody seemed to think it would be a good idea to randomly attack young white boys on the streets to teach them a lesson about what happens to young white boys when they misbehave and kill 168 innocent people, including 19 children, as a protest against their own government. Nobody assumed that, as white males, they were born guilty.
Weird, huh? I mean, when Muslims were considered the prime threat to America after a group of angry Muslims destroyed the Twin Towers because they were mad at America, then it was open season on Muslims in America to make them pay for something the vast majority of them never bought and never approved of.
And when Japanese Americans were considered the threat during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had no problem issuing Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942, which authorized the evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast to internment camps.
Following that approach to its logical conclusion, what is to be done about the perceived threat of white Christian males? Shouldn’t somebody be sounding the alarm?
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All of this is depressingly familiar. Please remember that this is not a problem of white people vs. black people, or Christians vs. Muslims. This is Homo sapiens being normal. In Japan, the oppressed group is Koreans. In Islamic countries, you might be oppressed for being born Shia or Sunni, depending on which country you're in. In one part of Africa, you are very much aware of whether you are Hutu or Tutsi. What we need is a working democracy and good education ... Oh, wait.
Yes, Keith, we should *all* be sounding that alarm. Thank you very much for your post. I’ve now shared it via Bluesky and Mastodon.