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> not sure if I'd call it terrorism unless the goal were to terrorize other people One of the things we've been working on in our office is learning empathy. S
by linuxkerneldev 10y ago
> not sure if I'd call it terrorism unless the goal were to terrorize other people
One of the things we've been working on in our office is learning empathy. So we take the characters in an incident narrative, reverse/flip all persons/locations and then see how it changes our perception of the incident. So in this example, if we reverse everything, it becomes: "An Indian man shouting "Get Out Of My Country" in a bar shoots and kills two promising young American engineers working in India.". The effect that has would naturally be to make Americans afraid of going to or being in India, hence: terror alert, terrorism. So I can empathize and understand why the author of the article described the murderer as a terrorist.
- jaxn 10y agoGuessing you don't work at Uber ;)
- ak39 10y agoI wanna work in your office too!
- hd4 10y agoHonestly reading this comment restores some of my hope in people. And it's refreshing seeing the reaction of the comments in this thread. Even though we are relatively unknown as a 'group' or whatever, it's good to know that among the ranks of programmers/engineers etc, the vast majority of us are overwhelmingly right-minded people.
- Udik 10y agoYou can empathise, but is this right? I think it would be silly to describe it as terrorism if it had happened in India. The fact that US's mainstream media would have done exactly that, wouldn't have made it less silly. So maybe (I mean it in a good way, even if it sounds a bit direct) you should use empathy to stop labelling things like this as terrorism, instead of doing the exact opposite.
- SolaceQuantum 10y agoIf an Indian man shouted that immigrants should leave their country as they murder immigrants in India that's a pretty rhetoric to imply that they want to intimidate other immigrants.