Uhhhh I was like, 11 going on 12 and I was dialed into this discourse about how the war was most definitely bullshit. Who tf is saying otherwise?https://twitter.com/danielleiat/status/1373477145381642241 …
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Okay I got the date wrong I was 12 going on 13 but still.
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Also, I'm Canadian, we didn't join the war and there was a pretty strong anti-Iraq war sentiment in Canada. We were dialled into how fucking wrong it was ALL THE TIME.
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Is this people trying to absolve themselves for being pro-war at the time? There's something to be said to owning up to your past opinions that you no longer agree with. Don't fucking lie about it.
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It got kicked off by someone who was, I think, badly and provocatively phrasing 'don't flatter yourself, people who were too young at the time, you're not immune to propaganda and a lot of you would have fallen for it'
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which I think could have been a helpful warning for people to bear in mind about, you know, current potential subjects of US imperialism, but it was poorly and provocatively stated, like I said, and it set everyone off.
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I mean there's not being immune to propaganda (true) and legitimately knowing that the war was bullshit when it was happening and being a kid (also true).
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That's what set everyone off; the op said 'many of you' and people (honestly, I think fairly) read 'all of you'. It was a uselessly provocative way to phrase it, unless all they were really after was attention. Which is very possible.
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I just read through her thread aaaaaand she is setting it up as Americans believing propaganda against China (read: CCP) about Xinjiang. So that is...bad.
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Regarding the WMDs, I recall really early on that there was no evidence for them and it was like screaming into the void about it tbh. As a kid seeing that on the news, it seemed absolutely fucking bonkers to me,
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