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That a 0.37% (or more) slice of some population that feels it's been oppressed and impoverished might engage in /(freedom fighter|terrorist)/ activities doesn't
by tyingq 5y ago
That a 0.37% (or more) slice of some population that feels it's been oppressed and impoverished might engage in /(freedom fighter|terrorist)/ activities doesn't seem surprising to me.
- thehappypm 5y agoThat would mean 100,000 terrorists in the scale of the USA
- tyingq 5y agoNot sure what you mean by this. There's not a current, similar situation in the US where the average US citizen feels like they were recently displaced/oppressed/etc by occupiers. That's been the situation in the past with Native Americans, slave populations, the American revolution, etc. I suspect the numbers met that threshold then.
- thehappypm 5y agoI don’t think this is a good faith answer. .037% of the USA pop is roughly 100,000 people.
- tyingq 5y agoIt's not a good faith premise since the whole of the USA population isn't in a similar situation currently. If it were, then I would expect at least 100k, yes.
- throwaway05112 5y ago
- poisonarena 5y ago
- tyingq 5y agoI don't think any single example makes a case that every terrorist is a terrorist or that every freedom fighter is a freedom fighter. A single black and white case doesn't mean other cases don't involve nuance, or depend on your perspective.
- lanterk 5y agoDid you also blame white people after Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people? Or when Stephen Paddock killed 61 people?
- poisonarena 5y agoWhat part of Israel are they from?