Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

1/ A meditation on the use of the word 'terrorist', by Robert Fisk.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 21 Mar 2019

@nils_gilman “Terrorism” is a word that has become a plague on our vocabulary, the excuse and reason and moral permit for state-sponsored violence— our violence—which is now used on the innocent of the Middle East ever more outrageously and promiscuously... /1

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Quoted by"...People who lived through fascism understand that when governments talk about terrorism and extremism, you have to be on guard, because these are always the words you hear before your rights are taken away from you." - Tim Snyder https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/3/9/14838088/donald-trump-fascism-europe-history-totalitarianism-post-truth