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Old 01-28-2017, 12:40 PM   #1370
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Originally Posted by peter12 View Post
Post-materialists have completely misjudged the importance of national identity and citizenship.

The fear of radical Islamic terrorism is not a fear of a direct threat, but more a common-sensical understanding that acquiesence to that threat comprises a weakening of the American moral hegemony, and the importance of that hegemony to the flourishing of human life.

If you cannot understand the benefits of living as a rig pig Butte, Montana over living as a prince in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, then you won't understand that fear.
It's still nonsensical. This is not in any way stoping the "acquiescence" of the American moral high ground. It's absolutely tangibly dividing real people irrespective of a moral compass. If anything, it's the opposite.

Just because you can see why an uneducated idiot in rural America is scared of radical islamism, doesn't decrease the idiocy of this move. It's still unbelievably stupid
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