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MadDAsHell

(2,067 posts)
Tue May 23, 2017, 08:31 PM May 2017

Is terrorism now both expected and accepted as part of life? ? ?

The first DU thread on the Greatest Page regarding the 20+ innocents murdered in the UK is #29, embarrassingly even below a thread dedicated to discussion of actor Roger Moore's death.

To DUers and the world at large, are terrorism and the victims it takes basically a non-event these days? Like a traffic jam on your way home...unfortunate and disruptive but something we'll forget about again until we're in the next one?

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Is terrorism now both expected and accepted as part of life? ? ? (Original Post) MadDAsHell May 2017 OP
What do the terrorists seek to accomplish? jberryhill May 2017 #1
Death of innocents WellDarn May 2017 #2
 

WellDarn

(255 posts)
2. Death of innocents
Tue May 23, 2017, 08:52 PM
May 2017

20+ children murdered at a concert, 30 women and children murdered in Yemen, black children murdered by cops without consequence. . . people incapable of seeing the commonality . . . is the lack of outrage really a surprise?

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