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The True Costs of the Rhetoric of Terror Continue to Mount – Part 1

Animal Ethics

The word ‘extremist’ runs a close second. Extremist’ connotes a fanatical whacko incapable of being reasoned with. Their concerns can’t be legitimate if they are “fanatical extremist terrorist whackos.” The rhetoric of terror has been used to “justify” human rights abuses in Guantanamo.