Is it "wrong" to immediately assume that a terrorist attack was committed by muslims?

Started by Alchemist34, Oct 3, 2017, in Life Add to Reading List

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  1. Buu
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    Oct 3, 2017
    so what term do you give the vegas shooter?
     
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  2. 1999
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    Oct 3, 2017
    Why don't we take the heat off gay people for once and declare this man a terrorist fa----
     
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  3. Lucy
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    Oct 3, 2017
    being pretentious is also a tactic of beta virgins with low body fat and muscle

    deranged/lunatic/psychopath/r-----ed c----. fair enough if @Big Cuntry classifies him as a terrorist, according to the definition by american state law, or whatever. cool. But to me, it's just not the same as (for example) someone who is a part of an organization devoted to instilling fear and breaking down western civilization.

    but to all you overworked fa----s who can't handle verbal debates online, I can list off hundreds of domestic white terrorists if you like. cause apparently i have to prove i'm not a racist now
     
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  4. Lucy
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    Oct 3, 2017
    are Bloods and Crips terrorist organizations?

    it's like the whole ANTIFA thing, i laughed when they got classified as a terrorist org, but in my mind, they aren't really a terrorist org. If anything, they should be on a watch list as their unorganized movement could incite vigilantism.
     
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  5. reservoirGod
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    Oct 3, 2017
    Whenever I see a car crash I assume asians... Whenever I smell fried chicken I assume black people.
     
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  6. DKC
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    Oct 3, 2017
    You engage on sectioneighty every day, though.

    I don't see how what he did couldn't fall under terrorism tbh
     
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  7. Charlie Work
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    Oct 3, 2017
    You can acknowledge that Islamic terrorism exists without the committing the fallacy of using that to prejudice yourself against an entire people. Most mass shooters are white. Most whites are Christians. So yeah, you're probably wrong to assume anything about a shooter until the smoke clears.
     
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  8. Lucy
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    Oct 3, 2017
    exposed by mods. f---.
    (but seriously majority of the 'news' i see here is American, so I ignore most of it/don't understand some of it/have a completely different view due to cultural differences.)
    we just define terrorism/terrorists differently, likely due to the extremely large body of water in between us and our land masses in which our homes are built on. My definition of terrorism is;
    Now I know, "but shooting heaps of people from a balcony did incite fear and disrupt society" I know, I agree. I think what he did was an act of terror, but I don't think he was a terrorist, in the sense that I don't think he had the motive to incite terror. Just a deranged psychopath looking to k--- people.

    anyone who goes out of their way to identify themselves as one is 100% of the time a f---ing c----. Like I get called racist a lot and if you want your evidence, white Christians are an inferior race.
     
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    Oct 3, 2017
    Also @MadCunt my definition of terrorism has nothing to do with the US doing ridiculous things like classifying antifa as terrorists
    Whenever I engage in political discussion of any kind with you or anyone from a different country, I try to keep in mind that you perceive US news a lot differently. To me though, anyone who is "committing acts of violence in public to incite fear and disrupt society" to the point of murder is a terrorist and I don't see the purpose of classifying them as anything other than that.
     
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  10. Lucy
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    that was more a lead off from the question 'are crips and bloods terrorist orgs?' (i know i sound like a c---- asking that, but honestly when they were fairly prominent in the 90's acts of violence were committed regularly in public by them)

    Yeah fair point and you're not one of those Americans that believe the sun revolves around their own country. Fair enough, but to me, that kinda makes it a blanket term and anyone committing murder could be seen as a terrorist, no?

    I'm kind of on the same page as you though, like I don't see why the classification of the man matters/what the purpose is. call him a deranged psychopath piece of s---, probably keep his identity anonymous as to deter people seeking fame to repeat these kind of actions etc etc.

    I'm more so of the opinion that I can EASILY see a reason to dismiss him as a deranged psychopath, over a terrorist, without devolving to race politics and I dunno the more I discuss/debate it the more I feel "f--- do i even care? does it even matter?"
     
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  11. DKC
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    lol I try not to be but I'm sure I come across as an americunt at times.

    I guess I should amend that to say "mass murder," and that I think that he can be both a deranged psychopath and a terrorist. I think there's a pretty big overlap on that venn diagram.
     
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    Oct 3, 2017
    i watched a whole knicks game and y'all still going holy s--- lol
     
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  13. Lucy
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    Oct 3, 2017
    yeah this one time i went on holidays and when i came back people were still posting on this site, f---ing losers
     
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    I'm doing work in the same room as my grandma and great aunt who watch the news 24/7 until dancing with the stars comes on so this s--- has been blaring into my brain for hours lol
     
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    :coco:
     
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    sounds like h--- on earth tbh
     
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    Oct 3, 2017
    I couldn't read all that but no it's not wrong to assume, people take everything too literally nowadays.

    Most massive attacks (especially in Europe and the Middle East) are from Muslim extremists, it doesn't mean the majority of muslims aren't peaceful people, but it is something that tends to happen with that religion.
     
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  18. Lucy
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    Oct 3, 2017
    this is very generalized opinion i hold, but I feel like if someone doesn't have something to live for, they are susceptible to someone else copy+pasting their will/beliefs/opinions/motivation/cause onto them... It's hard to explain so i'll use an example

    Timmy Muhmoud from Syria had his house bombed, his entire family and people he knew up until this point are now dead and he doesn't have any idea what to do. Along comes a cheery man, Dave Al-Baghdadi, he tells the boy the west has committed wrong against him, it's all americas fault, he can't retaliate and he has nothing etc etc and it's all another parties fault, in this example the west. He continues telling the boy that he has a way he can get vengeance/find happiness

    This innocent boy is now filled with anger and hatred towards those who commited this act against him, as well as now being friends with a known terrorist, Dave Al-Baghdadi
     
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  19. Antman
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    Oct 3, 2017
    Just to add on, I believe terrrorism can be classified as mass murder with a centralized agenda. Whether we know it or not, if we can classify the Florida gay club shootings as terrorism, then we should classify this as the same tenfold. An attack was made to the public and their safety was put in jeopardy; imo that’s terrorism.
     
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  20. Caine
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    Yeah I consider that terrorism too, and I think in America terrorism is much less likely to be from a Muslim. But in countries where there are no guns, it's likely it was done by a radicalized Muslim.
     
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