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I was taught a lot of the indoctrination as well, but I think it was the fact I was a Muslim growing up post 9/11. I'd also been to the region where my parents were from a couple times. So I guess because I saw first hand and has experience with my anti-western intervention family and community, I'd been inoculated from US civil religion to a certain extent.

Like, it's kinda hard to deify a nation whose children call you a terrorist, and whose people hold sweeping beliefs about countries that you've seen are not true with your own eyes. I'd been in Syria a few months before the initial color revolution attempt, although I was young, I do remember many parts of it. Iran even more so.

Also, I was a contrarian little shit.