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Originally Posted by Crumpy-Gunt
First off this is horrible and I feel for the victims.
I agree with Pepsi here. I dont know why people piled on him as if he said we need to accept terrorism. I think his point is that terrorist attacks happen daily around the world and its just been happening more in countries we are more connected to here in the western world.
Personally I am amused by people who dont realize that islamic terrorists mostly kill muslims in 3rd world countries and those people have been dealing with this for the better part of a decade and a half now. But of course that doesnt fit the narrative some people want to believe of terrorism being exclusively an islamic phenomenon or an exclusive attack on the western world and its values. There is a lot of terrorism going on in the world and most of it is happening in crappy countries nobody cares about, no hashtags for them and no facebook profile pictures will be changed for them. But as soon as some vile criminal religious extremist takes the life of a western person we all become personally offended.
It just shows people value certain lives more than others. We're more connected with Germany and France than other countries where innocent people die and we turn a blind eye or its not even newsworthy.
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If you can't see the difference between terrorist attacks in the middle east and terrorist attacks in the western world then you need glasses.
Any kind of terrorist attack is tragic, but these events are hitting too close to home. These are people with similar culture to us, the same quality of life that we have, and they are under attack. This means it can just as likely happen to us or loved ones. It's getting to the point that we're expecting these attacks to happen on a regular basis. That's a whole new level of scary and there doesn't seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel right now.