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vrganj 3 hours ago

To the Iranians, America is "The Great Satan".

To the Americans, Iranians are "Terrorists".

To a bystander they're both deranged warmongers using transparent excuses.

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BobbyJo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

There is plenty of evidence Iran funds terrorism. I don't know of any evidence that Americans are biblical monsters, but I'm open to new information.

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vrganj 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"Terrorism" is inherently a subjective, ideological label, just a vaguely threatening name for the Big Other. A classic in the genre, along with "Red Menace", "Yellow Peril", "Rogue State" etc etc.

The Iranian version of this propaganda technique is the "Great Satan".

They're all just big scary terms to throw around and justify ones deeds.

To the Iranians, the Americans are the terrorists blowing up their bridges. Now what?

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BobbyJo 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> "Terrorism" is inherently a subjective, ideological label

If the US started calling Iran "Satan" would you see that as an escalation of rhetoric, or business as usual?

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vrganj 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Business as usual. It's all just scary terms to dehumanize. No different from "Yellow Peril".

	▲	BobbyJo an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Fair enough. If you think terrorist and satan have equal grounding in reality then we'll just have to chalk the disagreement up to a difference in priors.

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Hikikomori 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Terrorism or resistance against western imperialism and colonization?

	▲	BobbyJo 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That is a question one could ask. A little beyond me to answer.