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In reply to the discussion: Tennessee father and son dead after AR-15 goes off and ammunition-filled room explodes [View all]npk
(3,701 posts)Of course the innocent people killed in Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism, that is the entire point. It's the fact that they can be turned into a "symbol" of evil because of where they live, whom the might associate with, do business with, perhaps the religion they serve or the fact that they believe or support attacks on certain groups of people who "they" perceive as evil or immoral. Any of this sound familiar. You are equating somebody, which because they live in Tennessee - the South and happen to own guns, as being Republicans, which in turn makes them evil or likely to discarded as human beings by you. Hell you don't even know whether the family is actually Republican. Maybe they are Dems or maybe they could careless about politics. Does that sound familiar to how Bush viewed people in Iraq. There are a few bad apples in Iraq so the whole damn country is evil. That is what Bush thought and many conservatives still think.
The point is when you start viewing people as sub-human just because of where they reside, or what they happen to look like, or resemble in some shape form or fashion people you despise, you become just as immoral as they are.