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How much less painful is it for a person to be able to hold an outside source accountable for their pain and suffering than to have to look inside and see that they bear some responsiblity for it themselves? This isn't just a problem in the Muslim world. Here in China people love to jump on a soapbox and rave about the wrong doings of Japan, when I was in the US I could barely believe some of the things that I heard come out of African American mouths to explain the problems faces by that segment of society. Its always easier to blame someone else. The crazy thing is that in this case using the wrong terminology has actually tacitly approved of that nonsense.
S-2, I absolutely agree with that the realistic goal would be to get Americans and more importantly the American media to change their use of incorrect terms. Then it would be interesting to see if the media really does have the powers that some people seem to think it has.
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