Was gonna post this reply on my main but lemmygrad is down:

Punching down is normalized to the point that those in power don’t even notice when it occurs.

The N-word and F-slur were commonly used as insults until like 2016, and is still used by chuds now but I digress.

Going to school post-9/11 was kinda crazy too. Islamophobic comments were so common that teachers just tuned it out in their heads. I got in quite a few fights with my peers back then and every time the person of authority would reprimand me because I would be seen as the aggressor because I confronted their bigotry (verbally or physically) instead of being a good boy and ignoring it.

When someone lashes out, either violently or verbally, it’s frowned upon because polite society likes to ignore injustices.

It’s why the “rise in antisemitism” thing is kinda laughable to me. Maybe I’m minimizing it and am a bigot myself, but I was talking to another Arab friend of mine and when we were looking back at how shit it was to be a Muslim in America post-9/11 we just couldn’t understand how people think someone shouting “free Palestine” at someone wearing a Yarmulka (which is still deplorable) is in any ways comparable to the literal lynchings and persecution of arabs that occur to this day in this country.

A young boy was shot and killed for being Palestinian, a 3-year old girl was drowned in her pool for being Palestinian, students in Vermont got shot for walking while Arab. To me, it seems similar to the Kirk situation, sure be upset about political violence, but your silence to all the other political violence you’ve witnessed makes you look like a piece of shit in my eyes.