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In reply to the discussion: Trying to condone the burning to death of a man in a cage [View all]aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)I don't think I have seen any posts condoning what ISIS did. What I have seen, however, is a number of posts failing to condemn it and criticizing those of us here who condemn the ISIS actions because we are Americans and we have supposedly done nothing about our own government's horrors. For my part, I have marched against racism, against the Vietnam war, and protested against the Bush mess. I could have done more. I didn't give my life for the peace movement like the two students at Jackson State and the twelve wounded when they protested the invasion of Cambodia or the four students killed at Kent State. But I don't think I'm a hypocrite for condemning ISIS because my own government has caused terror and death. I have been consistent in criticizing violent horror wherever it occurs, as you seem to be as well.