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Esperantist@wolfballs.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

I can only say so much to change your mind on any particular label, but I think my biggest consideration with this blanket labeling of groups (be they groups I agree with or not) is just the history of how the American government treats "terrorists" - and I'm using that word loosely. Once you're designated a terrorist, all bets are off and despite what's on paper, you don't really have any rights. You don't really even have to go back far to find examples of this.

The Abu Ghraib prison operated by the US military held people that, by the admission of the former commanding officer of the prison, tortured and executed people who she estimated were 90% innocent. They were just people in the wrong place at the wrong time who happened to be called a terrorist by the wrong person.

Are you sure it's a good idea to throw the "terrorist" label around, given what our government does to people who get called terrorists? What happens when it's you, or your family, or your friends who are on the receiving end of that? I'm pretty far left. I certainly don't think I deserve that kind of treatment for holding the extremist position that we should have 16 years of taxpayer funded schooling instead of 12, or that we shouldn't have starving kids in the richest country on Earth. Do you?

I guess all I'm saying here is that we have to be really careful with how we use words.

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