Originally posted by LSKennedy
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The depiction of the crusades as an evil Pope declaring war against "innocent people of color" is a fairly recent revision. Origin: American 1960s radical socialist movements on campus, using the name of a university to legitimize the ideas of a few junkie students and going viral, but never taken very seriously among historians.
Most Americans think "Arabs" always inhabited the entire peninsula, that Jesus looked like Osama bin Laden, etc. When I try to explain to them that I am Lebanese but none of my ancestors are Muslim or tribal/ethnic "Arabs", they get very confused.
In their leftist-filtered minds, the only large-scale ethnic/religious displacement that's ever occurred in history is the USA, Muslims are POC therefore innocent and terrorism is simply universal.
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