It pretty much was like that, except on forums

Shortly after 9/11 I was seeing bumper stickers on cars that said "MUSLIM HUNTING PERMIT" with a picture of crosshairs over a brown guy wearing a turban. I also remember watching the news in 2003 which had a live feed from a US tank invading Iraq in real-time, and the news anchors were excitedly talking about how cool it was and how brave our soldiers were. Even at the time I was thinking "this is fucked"

SADDAM IS THROWING BABIES OUT OF INCUBATORS AND THEREFORE MILLIONS OF IRAQIS NEED TO DIE

If twitter existed in any point in time in the past few centuries these shitlickers would be denouncing the violent natives or slaves that were fighting back against colonisers and slaveowners or bothsides-ing it.

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