• atro_city
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    332 months ago

    “I understand why terrorists attack the West.”

    Having been in a long-time resident of a region of brown people that the West sees as subhuman, I don’t condone terrorist actions, but I sure do understand why some of them do it. Some people just see an action, read or hear the words, without context and judge a person based on that, but they forget that humans are the sum of their experiences.
    Just like a small-town bumpkin in Australia might hate brown people for how they brought up, a refugee hating the West might’ve lived in constant fear of being bombed by a drone, seen the consequences thereof, and been pointed at a generic Westerner as the source of evil.

    People that I’ve talked to who have lived outside of Western countries understand what I mean, but many Westerners think I’m saying terrorism is justifiable or even good.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Bjork coulda never said it any better. And to be honest with how the west is right now I wouldn’t be too shocked to see every country that ISNT America try to kill/terrorize us. We talk so much shit it unbelievable.

      Shit we terrorize ourselves. this country is goofy as shit.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Often terrorism is “poking the bear”, some groups do it so that the “bear” totally messes up a country, so that the group can then gain power