Reply #84: Absolutely

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I have no doubt about this. In the years right after 911, right wingers were almost relieved. There was a bigotry that they were allowed to express with little opposition or being called out on it.

They always whine about political correctness and how they are being persecuted because they can't point out obvious "facts" about blacks or other minorities (in their racist heads). But here was a group they could openly be bigoted about and if a liberal said anything to them about it, they would almost gleefully say, "These people want you dead" blah blah blah.