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Gary Wilson said:I could just as easily pull up other songs for you right now—songs that paint a different, perhaps more realistic picture than these romanticized anti-war tracks.
Back in the day, Americans had an organized state that was obsessed with its global image, so everything was filtered and carefully managed.
But who’s going to filter things when it comes to these immigrants—especially once society has already rejected and stigmatized them?
By stigmatizing and casting them out, the silent and—I’d say—confused majority of Western society is essentially handing extremists a gift on a silver platter.
So, whether you like it or not, the West is at fault. It’s blamed for taking them in, and it’s blamed for keeping them out... it’s blamed for its colonial past, for failing to help, for helping too much, for its freedoms, and even for its lack thereof... it seems the West is simply blamed for being alive...