{"id":4805,"date":"2017-05-24T12:11:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4805"},"modified":"2017-05-24T12:11:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:11:29","slug":"the-post-terror-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/4805\/","title":{"rendered":"The Post-Terror Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t bother to comment on the terror attack in Manchester because I said everything<\/a> after the last one, and I know what is coming next (nothing). This Jihad Fatigue<\/a> is a bugger to shake.<\/p>\n

However, this article<\/a> by Brendan O’Neill in Spiked is worth reading:<\/p>\n

It is becoming clear that the top-down promotion of a hollow \u2018togetherness\u2019 in response to terrorism is about cultivating passivity. It is about suppressing strong public feeling. It\u2019s about reducing us to a line of mourners whose only job is to weep for our fellow citizens, not ask why they died, or rage against their dying. The great fear of both officialdom and the media class in the wake of terror attacks is that the volatile masses will turn wild and hateful. This is why every attack is followed by warnings of an \u2018Islamophobic backlash\u2019 and heightened policing of speech on Twitter and gatherings in public: because what they fundamentally fear is public passion, our<\/i> passion. They want us passive, empathetic, upset, not angry, active, questioning. They prefer us as a lonely crowd of dutiful, disconnected mourners rather than a real collective of citizens demanding to know why our fellow citizens died and how we might prevent others from dying. We should stop playing the role they\u2019ve allotted us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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