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In reply to the discussion: Listening to the GOPers, they're all talking as if Farook's radicalization is like some alien curse [View all]ck4829
(35,604 posts)29. Conditioning. "Terrorists" are set up in a way that they are supposed to be foreign, other
When they are your neighbors, your friends, all bets are off now. Nobody is safe!
We can't have that apparently, years of being told who and what a terrorist is by media, by politicians, by the experts and the 'experts'. It's just 'safer' for a lot of people apparently that a terrorist is someone who has foreign allegiances, a different skin color, has different beliefs, etc.
It results from the social construction of "terrorist".
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Listening to the GOPers, they're all talking as if Farook's radicalization is like some alien curse [View all]
MrScorpio
Dec 2015
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They want to say radicalization is bad, and they have no problem attacking where radicals live, but
ck4829
Dec 2015
#1
We're a country that has been at war all but 15 years of our existence.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Dec 2015
#6
The guy was born and raised in America, he is an American. Why do you avoid the facts?
Rex
Dec 2015
#27
Conditioning. "Terrorists" are set up in a way that they are supposed to be foreign, other
ck4829
Dec 2015
#29
Well, in a discourse, if there is an odd element sticking out, that causes reactions
Yorktown
Dec 2015
#30
I also mentioned before that sick is a relative term here, only in regards to ourselves.
MrScorpio
Dec 2015
#74
So would we be a "sick society" if we were talking about Columbine, Littleton, Atlanta bombings,
A Simple Game
Dec 2015
#35
People dying from riots and car fires are a possibility not the intent. But when
A Simple Game
Dec 2015
#70
Why do you forget the radicalized Christians in this country? Where do they come from?
KittyWampus
Dec 2015
#44
The thing I'm notibing this morning, on Morning Joke, is the desperation to blame Obama.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Dec 2015
#4
They found 12 pipe bombs. He was planning something far worse, but he fucked up.
Buzz Clik
Dec 2015
#18
Cheering at the notion that "all Muslims should be registered" is radicalization.
Buzz Clik
Dec 2015
#17
I never hear the right talk radicalization when it's a white Christian killing spree.
Tommy2Tone
Dec 2015
#51
Well, for one thing, the chances of Daesh establishing itself in this country…
MrScorpio
Dec 2015
#84