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  Thank you for bringing that up. Too many people aren’t aware that IMO this is the root cause of today’s super-partisan bullshit political environment. 
  If I’m not mistaken this was done away with in 1987 or 88 under the Reagan Admin (aka worst president ever).
  Also, podcasts and entertainment shows that present “news” are exempt from the Equal Time Rule. God knows that podcasts and other forms of media have propagated exponentially since that was written up so people are more likely to fall victim to confirmation bias and bullshit “news”.
context: How do you live that long and one day decide to start stabbing? >
  
  Escalation and radicalization from Fox News, NewsMax, Twitter, Truth Social, Facebook, Maga Rallies, Q Anon, Rush Limbaugh, PragerU, Joe Rogan, OAN, a whole cesspool of awful podcasts, every republican press release, etc.  
  For years and years now, people have been told (by sources THEY trust) that 
  - Democrats are murdering babies (sometimes MILLIONS per week... and sometimes they eat them!)
  
  
  that millions of Mexicans are coming across the border with drugs and guns to rape women and steal your job, 
  
  
  that Jews secretly control the money and the media, 
  
  
  that all Muslims are radical terrorists who are just one plane ticket away from another 9/11, 
  
  
  that LGBTQ people are actually perverted pedophiles who are "grooming" your kids, 
  
  
  that China invented a bio-weapon in covid and every Asian/Asian-American person you see is a secret double agent who is in on it and could infect you right now (but it's also a hoax by Dr Fauci to sell... something?)
  
  
  and the liberal elite want to take away your freedom to turn the USA into a communist gulag. 
  
  
  It's been a non-stop barrage of this bullshit for a long long time.  Nevermind that there's no sources or even logic to back any of it up; it's fear-mongering.   They tell the same lies every day and each con artist backs each other up to make it seem like it's coming from multiple sources. Every day, the same lies, the same twisted stories or straight up fake ones.  So, it slowly radicalizes mostly regular folks (usually uneducated poor white people) into believing they are under attack and that violence is the only way to defend themselves and their country.  They hear about being under attack and that our country is being destroyed and that our freedom is at risk and over and over and over and over from different angles multiple times a day until it feels like it's inescapable. 
  It'd be impressive if it wasn't so vile and destructive. >
  
  
  Escalation and radicalization from Fox News, NewsMax, Twitter, Truth Social, Facebook, Maga Rallies, Q Anon, Rush Limbaugh, PragerU, Joe Rogan, OAN, a whole cesspool of awful podcasts, every republican press release, etc. 
  
  Please don't leave out the Blue Lives Matter bullshit. One of worst groups ever that we forced to live upon and nothing is done about it >
  
  Good point! >
  
  I went looking, but google has a terrible memory these days.  Figured it wasn’t her first rodeo >
  
  Google is acting  even more bizzare then ever >
  
  So not just me. Good. Google something. Get 3 pages of "10 best" "5 best" "7 tips to" and all that BS >
  
  First page is also usually "sponsered" or advertising. >
  
  ~~Unlock~~ Ublock Origin stops a lot of that >
  
  Just letting people know that is supposed to say Ublock Origin.
  My phone just tried to autocorrect the exact same thing lol. >
  
  Thank god for the witness who bravely followed and reported this suspect. >
  
  Her ugly ass smirk makes me ill. >
  
  She looks so proud of herself. >
  
  Wait til she finds out her stupid remark about one less person to blow up our country makes her outburst a federal hate crime. Simple assault goes out the window. Welcome to federal prison. >
  
  Not that it even matters, but like, that isn't even the right offensive racial stereotype. How thick are you that you can't even be racist enough to commit a federal hate crime correctly? >
  
  Sikhs getting attacked after 9/11 is a pretty clear example that that kind of idiocy is widespread, sadly >
  
  Happened in my town. His windows in his store kept getting broken. It was awful. Was the nicest person and helped everyone that came in that store. He gave up and left. 
  The bad feeling it gave me hasn't diminished over time >
  
  It got so bad in our suburb town on Long Island to the point where 7-11 and gas station owners were putting up signs in the windows and by the registers along the lines of:
  "While we are of Middle Eastern descent, we do not condone the actions of extremist Muslim culture and sympathize with all victims of the attacks against OUR country.  Please do not [whatever bigoted nonsense people were perpetrating against them at the time].
  It was really sad.  These people had been staples of the community for decades.  And because of their beliefs, skin color, and country of origin (hell, the majority of them weren't even Afghani), people took it upon themselves to dole out "justice" against them.
  It kind of made me ashamed to be part of the demographic that was doing this stupid shit. >
  
  Afganistan wasn't the country responsible for 9/11.
  Still though, blind racism, as well as all forms of racism, really suck. >
  
  Afghanistan was seen responsible for 9/11 because their taliban government was harboring Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda.
  Iraq was the one not responsible for 9/11. >
  
  cough cough Saudi Arabia... >
  
  Bloomington Indiana not Minnesota. >
  
  Bloomington, Indiana is generally a pretty nice town.  Now, Saint Paul Indiana could use some work. Definitely gotta say Minnesota has the nicer Saint Paul. >
  
  It’s a nice town surrounded by rural areas. In much of rural Indiana, Trumpism remains very strong. Drove from Indy to Fort Wayne and saw tons of trump signs and stickers, anti-socialism, liberal hate, etc etc. >
  
  Nahhhh... it's a nice university surrounded by a bunch of shitty towns >
  
  I'll be honest, when I think of Bloomington I think of IU, so you're more right than I am. >
  
  I'm not sure why the headline here is attributing the racism claim to the university when the text of the article confirms that racial motivation is called out in the charging documents. >
  
  Yes it was a shitty use of a colon. >
  
  
  shitty use of a colon.
  
  I mean…yeah, that’s what colons are for. >
  
  Racism is a fucking disease, man. Evil bitch! People who do shit like this for reasons like that have no place in our society. Edit : obviously im saying racism is wrong >
  
  Meh. I’ve seen worse >
  
  steve mnuchin as well. >
  
  mitch mcconnell while we’re at it >
  
  And that new deplorable douchbag in congress George Santos. His smug fucking face seriously angers me. >
  
  Charlie Kirk too if we’re gonna keep it going. >
  
  He face too small for he gotdamn head >
  
  "Davis told police she stabbed the woman multiple times in the head with a folding knife, because it 'would be one less person to blow up our country.'"
  Wonder where she got that kind of rhetoric. >
  
  i thought it was the Muslims who blew things up to them? >
  
  It’s all the same to people like her. >
  
  Jesus, so hateful and awful and yet a hit funny. >
  
  It was funny before it was so real.. >
  
  That movie is from 2012. It was already very real then, and had been for a long time. >
  
  Yeeah, true, but it definitely seemed to ramp up after 2016. >
  
  2016 was the result of almost two decades of build-up. It can be traced straight back to 9/11 and the country's reactions to that. >
  
  This is what happens when you normalize racist thoughts and rhetoric >
  
  University: Student stabbed on bus because her attacker is an unhinged lunatic racist >
  
  You forgot horrifically stupid. See her post in this thread... >
  
  Wait, what? Where? >
  
  Anti-China sentiment spilling over into hatred for anyone who looks Asian; only going to get worse from here as the rhetoric winds up. Same thing happened in the Iraq war era to anyone who looked even vaguely Middle-Eastern. >
  
  Chinese-American here. My family has been here in the US since the early 1900s. Terrified of all the current rhetoric. We have no ties to China yet I’ve been told to “go back to China” several times.  I’m like, “mother fuckers - I am American. Deal with it.” >
  
  Yeah to me it feels like we will forever be foreigners in our own country. I’m in Canada and I’ve heard “go back to your country” even from immigrants >
  
  Yep. I’m pretty sure if I got deported to China the Chinese would tell me to go back to America 🤣🤷🏻‍♂️🤣 >
  
  I fucking hate living in Indiana >
  
  Mixed Asian here. Been dealing w this my whole life. At least now people are realizing it is a problem and calling it for what it is. Sick and tired of it. >
  
  The fact that some people, even some Asians think that racism against Asians isn't a real problem is what pisses me off the most. >
  
  Usually when racism against Asians is brought up in Reddit, there are like 100 comments saying how racism in Asia is actually the worst like it somehow is relevant. It just sounds like they are justifying racism against Asians. So many people just don't care about racism against Asians, especially on Reddit.
  Edit: Also, there's a world of difference between getting stared at in Asia or getting denied service at a small store because you aren't Asian vs getting literally killed in America for being non-white. Yet people still try to claim Asians are the most racist. >
  
  Conveniently, they never use the same argument for Africans – there's plenty of racism in Africa. In fact, there's quite a lot of racism in Europe, particularly outside Western Europe. >
  
  I've literally seen people say how they think a country like Japan is the most racist on Earth when you got other countries out there outright enslaving people. >
  
  Japan is racist, but imo it's mainly xenophobia. They even discriminate against Japanese who were born outside of the country. But like at worst, non-Japanese get denied service at some small hole in the wall restaurant or store, or get stared at. Here in America, minorities get killed. It's a world of difference.
  Edit: What I mean is that, imo, Japanese people generally don't hate you for your race, they hate that you are an outsider, regardless of race. Of course there definitely are racist Japanese people, not trying to say there aren't any. >
  
  I'm not saying that Japan doesn't have racism, every country does, and Japan is very xenophobic. However to say they are the most racist is straight up ignorant.
  There was even a video done by a channel asking black Japanese and black expats living in Japan. They described how yes there is racism and they do get hassled by police, they never fear that it will escalate towards violence against themselves. They even talked about how hard it was to speak to family and friends in the US who refuse to believe that the racism is less in Japan. >
  
  I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm saying what most people think is racism in Japan is not a hatred of their race, it's a general dislike and fear of outsiders. >
  
  Anti china sentiment + residual COVID racism is gonna ruin some Asian American lives. >
  
  Yep, many young people don't know this. Japan was seen as the biggest hegemonic threat to the United States in the 80s and 90s, and the media coverage against them was absolutely brutal. Gallup archives their polls, and throughout the early 90's, nearly 60-70% of Americans had a negative view of Japan. Japan merely passed the baton to China. >
  
  Now that is interesting. Makes me wonder who the next "villain" would be if China enters a "lost decade" like Japan did. India or S. Korea maybe? >
  
  India for sure. They're still in the rapid growth/rapid development phase and will likely continue barring a catastrophic disaster.
  S. Korea is in the same socio-economic boat as Japan. >
  
  Definitely India, they even have easy to utilize culture war issues. Unsafe for women, antiquated customs like caste system, giant hubs for scam call centers that prey on the elderly, etc... Granted, some of these are very real issues that should be looked at (there's been significant progress afaik) but just like China these things can be propped up hard into propaganda. >
  
  I guess you don't remember a few years back when reddit would upvote anything calling Indians rapists or street-shitters. >
  
  a few years back? It never stopped. You can't even have a post about an Indian on a sub like /r/upliftingnews without an absolute plethora of incredibly racist comments >
  
  I blame dismantling the Fairness Doctrine. When you can blur the lines of news and entertainment you have agencies pandering for views. Lies masquerading as news is dangerous to society, and even more to the individual with mental issues.