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‘I was wrong’: how Covid conspiracies became a gateway to extreme views.
It's going to be a difficult task to reverse this growth in #fundamentalism.
Social media platforms have played a key role. New ones, like #Mastodon have an important job to do.
And suddenly…the #IranWar has turned into some kind of #Christian end-days crusade. What could possibly go wrong? Is this any way to conduct rational foreign affairs? We now need to worry about US #Military leadership leading us into some sort of armageddon scenario. #Religion #TrumpRegime #Republicans #ChristianNationalism #Fundamentalism
And suddenly…the #IranWar has turned into some kind of #Christian end-days crusade. What could possibly go wrong? Is this any way to conduct rational foreign affairs? We now need to worry about US #Military leadership leading us into some sort of armageddon scenario. #Religion #TrumpRegime #Republicans #ChristianNationalism #Fundamentalism
Most of the #problems that #Iran does have in its #society are similar to the West's own problems. Remove the #islamophobic framing and it all seems much more familiar. #Misogyny, #racism, #homophobia, limited #democracy, #police power, and #RightWing #religious #fundamentalism are not exactly unknown in the #USA or its #Western #allies.
And we don't go to #war with them. Only with a non-US-aligned Muslim country. Otherwise, we recognize that #change does not mean "overthrow the #government".
Most of the #problems that #Iran does have in its #society are similar to the West's own problems. Remove the #islamophobic framing and it all seems much more familiar. #Misogyny, #racism, #homophobia, limited #democracy, #police power, and #RightWing #religious #fundamentalism are not exactly unknown in the #USA or its #Western #allies.
And we don't go to #war with them. Only with a non-US-aligned Muslim country. Otherwise, we recognize that #change does not mean "overthrow the #government".
