Tuesday, September 14

Are there no universal moral values?

The spectacular rise of the female terrorist by Alexis B. Delaney and Peter R. Neumann
The scholar Clara Beyler, who analyzed public reactions to suicide bombings, found that "female kamikazes" tended to be portrayed as "the symbols of utter despair ... rather than the cold-blooded murderers of civilians." If a woman was involved, the media focused on "what made her do it," not on the carnage that she had created. In other words, if the attacker was a woman, it was the bomber who became the victim, and whose grievances needed to be addressed.
Typical. I thank the mindset promoted by post-modernism for this.

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