(September 3, 2020 at 10:19 am)WinterHold Wrote:(September 3, 2020 at 8:51 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Islamophobia is common, mass murders are not. Clearly, something more than mere islamophobia is required to take your run of the mill bigot and turn them into a terrorist. For this guy, it was great replacement propaganda. I don't know that anyone would put the sane stamp on that - but we can say, provided you believe in that sort of claptrap, a terrorist act can seem sane and rational. It would be consistent with his beliefs about the world around him. We could repeat this for the 9/11 bombers and run of the mill Great Satan propagandists as well.
OFC extremism is a human state, and it relies on ideologies that can strongly compel people to act. Religion sits pretty high up there on the list of things that strongly compel people to act. I suspect that our christian dominionists will act just like your islamists given the chance - and they have. Obviously, you can condemn whatever you like, but I think that you should probably understand what you're condemning.
A person was made to believe that the other guys were coming to kill his people, that they hated his people and were actively wiping them out. Because he could be convinced of this absurdity - he could be compelled to atrocity. The act of terrorism was a rational product of his view - and it's a rational product of any similar view, no matter who the other guy and your people are supposed to be in any specific context.
When I said all extremist humans are the same, I did mean what I said "literally".
In other words; it's not like Muslim extremists are from Venus while White extremists are from Mars.
Extremism is a human state and both of us agreed on that, after that I don't agree with you.
The red text is what I believe to be "bigotry" from your own side; and trying to justify the terrorism of Tarrant as being a "person who misunderstood a phenomena"; while I stand with the court in New Zealand that locked that garbage behind bars for life without parole.
I repeat shaming you for not calling this foul animal for what he deserves to be called, I shame you for having second thoughts about indirectly excusing his action -read the bit I colored in red from your response-.
When Al Qaeda did 9/11 you enlisted in the U.S army. But when Tarrant the terrorist did a far worse crime you didn't even condemn him right.
Who's biased and brainwashed in your opinion?
Could you be more explicit in explaining why you think the emphasized passage displays bigotry? I'm a white girl, so maybe I'm just blind to it, but I'm not seeing what you seem to be seeing.