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For the people who are surprised that Zero Dark Thirty is creating a sense of extreme jingoism wherein white Americans want to kill people of Arab descent:

inmytsinelas:

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when coming from all of this:

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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

(Reblogged from thisisnationalism)

If you know Middle Easterners, a lot of them, they look Mexican or they look, you know, like a lot of people in South America, dark skin, dark hair, brown eyes. And they mix. They mix in.

“And those people, their only goal in life is to, to cause harm to the United States. So why do we want them here, either legally or illegally? When they come across the border, besides the trash that they leave behind, the drug smuggling, the killings, the beheadings. I mean, you are seeing stuff. It’s a war out there.

Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, Arizona GOP Favorite

Spreading hate, lies, and fear has been the ammo of choice for many politicians for ages… but to be this openly and aggressively racist about it takes it to a whole new level of disgusting, dangerous, and absurd. Makes me sick.