In the comments elsewhere here I've been accused of downplaying racism. I don't think I have been downplaying racism, but that seems to be the accusation.
All I've been saying is that SJWs on tumblr are downplaying the deaths of huge numbers of people by Islamist terrorism. They want to wish it all away, like those deaths don't matter.
While there were plenty of very sensible people (i.e. not SJWs) criticising the war on terror back in the 2000s, I'm not sure that would have been enough to stop ISIS's arrival. The correlation isn't strong. Certainly without Sadam Hussein in power Islamist terrorism is stronger in Iraq than it would have ever been otherwise, but that's because Saddam was a savage dictator who ruled with an iron fist. The fact remains that ISIS have been a long time coming and they can't be entirely dismissed as the direct result of UK and US foreign policy.
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Date: 2016-01-24 12:23 am (UTC)All I've been saying is that SJWs on tumblr are downplaying the deaths of huge numbers of people by Islamist terrorism. They want to wish it all away, like those deaths don't matter.
While there were plenty of very sensible people (i.e. not SJWs) criticising the war on terror back in the 2000s, I'm not sure that would have been enough to stop ISIS's arrival. The correlation isn't strong. Certainly without Sadam Hussein in power Islamist terrorism is stronger in Iraq than it would have ever been otherwise, but that's because Saddam was a savage dictator who ruled with an iron fist. The fact remains that ISIS have been a long time coming and they can't be entirely dismissed as the direct result of UK and US foreign policy.