Very nice writing. You know much more about the Troubles than I do. I like your reminder of the quote about freedom fighter > terrorists. My own intuition is that our authoritarian right wing is deliberately claiming words like “freedom” and “patriot” to set up a false paradigm that they are freedom fighters. It’s like setting the stage.…
Very nice writing. You know much more about the Troubles than I do. I like your reminder of the quote about freedom fighter > terrorists. My own intuition is that our authoritarian right wing is deliberately claiming words like “freedom” and “patriot” to set up a false paradigm that they are freedom fighters. It’s like setting the stage. But I believe they know the difference and are engineering a false scenario. It’s an interesting filter for reviewing prior conflicts; what proportion of fighters truly believed they were freedom fighters? And how would we know? And would that knowledge be useful?
Very nice writing. You know much more about the Troubles than I do. I like your reminder of the quote about freedom fighter > terrorists. My own intuition is that our authoritarian right wing is deliberately claiming words like “freedom” and “patriot” to set up a false paradigm that they are freedom fighters. It’s like setting the stage. But I believe they know the difference and are engineering a false scenario. It’s an interesting filter for reviewing prior conflicts; what proportion of fighters truly believed they were freedom fighters? And how would we know? And would that knowledge be useful?