• YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 months ago

    Singlehandedly showing that whoever turns away from virtue, belief and humanity cannot blame their culture/ethnicity for it. ✊

  • yesman@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    If you think a terrorist is someone who does terrorism, John Brown and Pottawatomie fit every definition I’ve ever heard.

    If you think a terrorist is a kind of person, and exclude John Brown because he’s good, then I’ll remind you that’s the precise logic the right uses to deny Trump is a criminal.

    IMO, John Brown’s heroic actions are diminished by minimizing how violent and brutal he was.

    • sik0fewl
      2·
      3 months ago

      One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, as they say.

    • PugJesus@piefed.social
      OPMEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I mean, you could argue in Bleeding Kansas he was a terrorist, but his actions in Bleeding Kansas are more controversial even amongst his supporters than his actions at Harpers Ferry, which are a more ‘conventional’ attempt at an uprising and the source of his everlasting fame and glory.

      But yes, I agree, his actions in Kansas fit the definition and the brutality of it should not be downplayed. “A terrible remedy for a terrible malady”