John Daniel Davidson(@johnddavidson):The reason they said it was an attack on our “freedom” is because they were unwilling or unable to articulate anything other than freedom as being uniquely American. They wouldn’t say western or Christian for fear of being seen as racist or xenophobic. The mainstream of the ‘90s and 2000s was captured by the idea of America as a blank slate. If the Muslim terrorists hated is because we were western Christians, it would undermine that blank slate narrative, so they had to hate us bc of our “freedom,” whatever that meant. (This is also why they used ridiculous phrases like “war on terror” when we all knew it was a war on violent Muslims.)

2026.09.12 21:39

The reason they said it was an attack on our “freedom” is because they were unwilling or unable to articulate anything other than freedom as being uniquely American. They wouldn’t say western or Christian for fear of being seen as racist or xenophobic. The mainstream of the ‘90s and 2000s was captured by the idea of America as a blank slate. If the Muslim terrorists hated is because we were western Christians, it would undermine that blank slate narrative, so they had to hate us bc of our “freedom,” whatever that meant. (This is also why they used ridiculous phrases like “war on terror” when we all knew it was a war on violent Muslims.)

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