• novibe@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    Reminder that terrorist started being used as a replacement for “freedom fighter”, when public opinion on the Mujahideen, APLA, IRA etc. started to change and flip.

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      when public opinion on the Mujahideen, APLA, IRA etc. started to change and flip

      Seems like a reversal of cause and effect. I think the usage of the term “terrorist” for these groups was a deliberate choice of the consent factory to flip public opinion.

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        That’s what I mean, they started calling them terrorists because people started seeing “freedom fighter” as a positive thing. “Freedom fighters” were scary anarchists that blew things up in Europe in the 1800s.