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Originally Posted by icenine
your indignation about Americans assuming it was either foreign jihadists or domestic right-wing terrorism is rather indicative of your inability to grasp that the worst terrorists attacks in recent memory were by people perceived to be tied to these groups or actually belonging to them.
Think about it. And what do you mean by left? Most American news groups in the mainstream media were assuming an individual upset with the government or overseas terrorists. There is a reason people knee jerk this way: 9-11 and Oklahoma.
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But I keep on hearing that it's not proper to profile. That said, I tend towards a traditional, narrower, definition of terror than its current expanded form. Currently, the term is applied to any group directed violence; however, that is not the classic definition IIRC. Moreover, the overwhelming majority of international terror incidents are propagated by people with one thing in common—and it ain't just becasue they've been repressed by the West.