and is extremely problematic (for USians if the rest of us can't tell the difference between supposedly liberal Usians and right-wing USian nutjobs because you all use the same problematic language and therefore imply you believe/support the same things).
Which is why I rewrote; it was faster and easier to make my point by backing away from loaded language, once my attention was brought to the non-US view.
the Taliban's rise to power was funded by the US government to spread your own country's ideas to Afghanistan.
American foreign policy, particularly as practiced by the same people who shook Saddam's hand a couple decades ago and then bombed the snot out of him now is a whole 'nother conversation. Personally, I don't deny it, I never agreed with it, I had no control except overridden votes about it.
The parallels now, to a liberal American woman, have little to do with foreign policy and everything to do with the parallels between self-appointed religious leaders oppressing women in particular in the name of purity or religion or family rights or whathaveyou. The complete whackaloons aren't throwing acid in schoolgirls' faces here, but they are literally standing between them and doctors providing legal medical services, screaming at them, forcing them away from the doors, and in many cases stalking them. And now one of them has committed an assassination while all the people who urged him into it wash their hands of it.
I think you might need to see/know what appears to be happening from my outside perspective.
I'm schizophrenic about this, because while I agree that it never hurts to get an outside perspective and I agree with your original comment or I wouldn't have edited; at the same time, this particular conversation is an American speaking mostly to other Americans about an American atrocity, and thus using language, including appropriated words, as it would be understood by that audience. Plenty of what I write about is generic enough to be worldwide, but politically, it's like your BNP posts. I can read them, but what's the point of the American point of view on them? It's not like I could vote.
As I type, Countdown (a political commentary show) is running and giving a much more detailed parallel between domestic and imported terrorism.
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Which is why I rewrote; it was faster and easier to make my point by backing away from loaded language, once my attention was brought to the non-US view.
the Taliban's rise to power was funded by the US government to spread your own country's ideas to Afghanistan.
American foreign policy, particularly as practiced by the same people who shook Saddam's hand a couple decades ago and then bombed the snot out of him now is a whole 'nother conversation. Personally, I don't deny it, I never agreed with it, I had no control except overridden votes about it.
The parallels now, to a liberal American woman, have little to do with foreign policy and everything to do with the parallels between self-appointed religious leaders oppressing women in particular in the name of purity or religion or family rights or whathaveyou. The complete whackaloons aren't throwing acid in schoolgirls' faces here, but they are literally standing between them and doctors providing legal medical services, screaming at them, forcing them away from the doors, and in many cases stalking them. And now one of them has committed an assassination while all the people who urged him into it wash their hands of it.
I think you might need to see/know what appears to be happening from my outside perspective.
I'm schizophrenic about this, because while I agree that it never hurts to get an outside perspective and I agree with your original comment or I wouldn't have edited; at the same time, this particular conversation is an American speaking mostly to other Americans about an American atrocity, and thus using language, including appropriated words, as it would be understood by that audience. Plenty of what I write about is generic enough to be worldwide, but politically, it's like your BNP posts. I can read them, but what's the point of the American point of view on them? It's not like I could vote.
As I type, Countdown (a political commentary show) is running and giving a much more detailed parallel between domestic and imported terrorism.
They haven't used the j word. :)