that's easily the least-interesting part of my post though (and a quick web search will show plenty of evidence both for and against it). again: our news media

that's easily the least-interesting part of my post though (and a quick web search will show plenty of evidence both for and against it). again: our news media temporarily gaslit the entire country into being bigoted against an entire major world religion (not to mention other groups who were unfortunate enough to resemble, at a glance, the caricatures we were gaslit into hating—like Sikhs), solely to further the agenda of foreign-soil invasions, and then told us we were wrong for having ever held these beliefs after the fact, when they were the ones who instilled those beliefs in us in the first place. when you sit down and examine how crazy this all was, it's mind-blowing, both the actual series of events and how quickly we forgot and moved on from it as though it never happened. most people forgot they ever held these beliefs at the time (understandable, as it was quite shameful—even if it wasn't our fault), and, I assume, people who were not born yet will never truly know what it was like, because I guarantee that shit ain't going in the history books. even saying "freedom fries" or playing American Idiot on Spotify today rarely truly jogs people's memory and makes them remember that chapter of their lives and how quickly our beliefs shifted as the result of blatantly state-backed media indoctrination enacted on a susceptibly trusting populace.