The "wow" here, imho, is about the power of propaganda.

(Granted you talk of America, but it's precisely the same over
here:) You don't even realize the corruption of your language.
Bet it has pervaded your entire mental and emotional existence
by now.

You no longer see reality.
Islam never was a "race".
It is not now, nor will it ever be a so called race.

This phenomenon never really ceases to amaze me...how bloody
easy it is to remove people from the screaming-in-your-face-
obvious, if you control the "journalists".

Still makes my jaw drop, from time to time, after all these
years.