Edit: Apparently just a rumour.
edited 22nd Aug '17 4:17:12 AM by TerminusEst
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Van driver in Barcelona is killed, most likely by Civil Guard. Word is that he used a dud explosive belt.
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'Terrorism is not about mental illness,' says French psychiatrist
Addressing the threat France faces from terrorism, Collomb said several times this month that a third of the suspects reported for radicalisation to the Terrorism Prevention and Radicalisation Reporting File (FSPRT) suffer from "psychological issues”. Since its creation in 2015, around 18,550 people have been listed in the FSPRT, according to an article published in French daily Le Figaro.
Collomb has declared that he wants to mobilise psychiatric hospitals and psychiatrists “to identify the kind of personalities that could potentially take [radical] action”. He cited the example of a man who killed one person and injured another in Marseille on Monday after crashing his van into people waiting at bus shelters. “He came out of a psychiatric clinic,” Collomb told TV news channel BFMTV. “He’d previously been in prison and he killed someone. We need to consider this kind of case."
Several specialists have reacted to Collomb’s statements and have criticised the idea of using psychiatric examinations to try to identify potential terrorists. In an interview with FRANCE 24, Fethi Benslama, a psychoanalyst and a professor at Paris Diderot University, said that a history of mental health problems does not explain why someone would commit a terrorist act...
Oh, bother.
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Oh so some asshole is back to demonizing the mentally ill? It's been said over and over again that the mentally ill are more likely to be victims of violent crime than be violent themselves.
It's just the latest attempt to figure out some magical key to detecting terrorists early. When in truth each individual terrorist tends to have their own reasons for it.
Disgusted, but not surprised
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I've also noticed that a common reason for calling terrorists mentally ill is when someone does't want to examine their actual motivations, like why in the US you'll have people who have no trouble calling out the motivations of Islamists but suddenly insists that the WASP who commits some terroristic act must've been secretly crazy.
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English please...?
My French is far from decent, but I'll try: 'The bomber has reasons that reason does not know'.
edited 24th Aug '17 5:01:18 PM by Quag15
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Emotions? Unconscious things?
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Dutch concert got called off due to terror threat. Just some guy with a history of mental illness.
Involved band has the name of "Allah" in its name.
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Abdelbaki Essati, the main suspect responsible for recruiting the Spanish terrorists kept a low profile by looking like a hipster and a shaved/trimmed beard, and spoke politely at all times.
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Paranoia Fuel at its finest.
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Bad thing about that coming true is that he was nearly reported...
Belgian troops shot a Belgian-Somali man after using a machete to attack someone while shouting "Allahu Akhbar".
edited 26th Aug '17 4:36:17 AM by Ominae
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edited 26th Aug '17 4:39:23 AM by TheHandle
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Sauce. Predictably, the soldiers shot someone who was attacking people with a machete, not shot him after attacking passers-by with a machete.
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I guessed as much, but the alternative was too bizarre not to point out.
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So this means we can finally put hipsters on the terrorist watch?
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As a hipster cultural marxist/muslim, I beg to differ.
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Why would you use "cultural Marxist" as something to describe yourself?
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Appropriation? Also, it applies to me pretty accurately, in the literal sense. I'm not ashamed of being a Frankfurt school fanboy. Herbert Marcuse might as well be my father.
Although I just went looking for "definitions" of cultural Marxism, only to find myself in a bizarro world where people are either furious at exaggerated windmills ("they want everyone to be paid the same no matter how much/hard/well they work!"), or treat fairly inoccuous if not outright excellent things as if they were the worst thing ever ("Promoting secularism and social and gender equality! The horror!")
Jeez, what's their panic?
edited 26th Aug '17 6:20:32 AM by TheHandle
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Trevor as a terrorist? ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
I'm surprised because it's the first time I've seen this term being used in a postive context by any side, left or right. 
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I don't even know what cultural Marxism is, enlighten me?
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Good!
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Assholes.
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