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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by vox_mollis on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @10:32AM (#10581658)
That's a very good research methodology. Excluding non-stateside attacks and arbitrarily selecting 2002 as the starting point to arrive at a likely preselected conclusion.
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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by querulous on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:17PM (#10582521)
sure. let's start in 1930:

white supremacists: 11,000,000+...

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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by steveklabnik on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @10:37AM (#10581691)
As a citizen of the US, I prefer to talk about my own country, since I have more historical context. And 9/11 was a one-time event that hasn't and can't happen again, now that we've done things like reinforce pilot's doors. Removing outliers is a pretty common thing.

Furthermore, it makes sense to start post-9/11 since "we're in a different world now" and all that rhetoric that politicians have been spewing since. This is about today's political context, where 9-11 was the defining moment.

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