outside of the u.s. "criminal" activity is more amenable to being viewed as "people doing their best for a better life for themselves and their families"
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it is only within a framework of moral superiority that foreign actors are seen as purely evil people who wake up in the morning deciding to be as evil as possible specifically against americans
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while is IS true that americans are attacked it is mostly moral sentimentality that is attacked and it is attacked only because it is spread over everythinghttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1398647145939431428?s=20 …
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it's like if someone who grew up only eating fillets goes to an ethnic grocery store and throws up and gets angry upon seeing the sight of chicken heads and chicken feet. the feeling of being 'attacked' is very true but is a result of denial of realityhttps://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1396150110736764928?s=20 …
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this is the same revulsion response to things like bribery and tax evasion even though centralized government recognize these just as the emergent aspects of hooman coordination and deal with them the best they can
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take china's one-child-policy. is it *that* hard to believe that the state was just trying to do what's best for everyone as a whole? or is it Absolutely True that some suits just woke up in the morning, got together in a room, and decided "let's be evil as fuck today"
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or take osama bin laden's self described motivations vs as portrayed in the media:https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/5qpioz/redditor_explains_why_radical_terrorists_have/ …
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much of the hell we create arises out of "elite panic". a fundamental distrust in the the nature of goodnesshttps://youtu.be/vT_sKGbP1yY?t=773 …
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