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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I immigrated to the US in the late 90s from....Bosnia  :D  :D  :D  (I know why you mentioned it, of course) and always felt like I couldn't believe how good things were before 9/11 happened. It's like something shifted after that day and we have never been able to get back on track. [/quote]

I was in NYC on that day, so it was up close and in my face, but I’ve felt like that was the death of so much collective optimism, and the void was replaced by so much cynicism and paranoia.

Then came smartphones and social media, which at first felt like progress, but it eventually only served to make us far more cynical and disconnected.

Then came Covid, and that was really the final blow to any feeling of “we’re in this life thing together.” What a sorry state we’re in now. [/quote]

I think it was the day we gave in to fear and made racism totally ok again. Like before that we were making progress, but all of a sudden every Muslim was a terrorist and every brown person was suspicious. [/quote]

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