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The Ire of Satire Meets the Error of Terror

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The reign of terror named terrorism as a state ideology during the French revolution but the practice of terrorism as public policy predated cries of liberte, egalite et fraternite, given the unprecedented peculiar history of Maafa or the African holocaust that went on for centuries, first across the Sahara and then across the Atlantic, under the sponsorship of various states. The error in terrorism is that it presumes that human beings are such scary cats that fear would be an effective policy for domination or liberation. On the contrary, human beings are a strange piece of work capable of facing the scariest threats even with a thrill of heroism or a yearning for martyrdom. The error in terrorism is that the state continues to fight fire with fire, a crazy form of vaccination by which the lethal doze of the disease is prescribed as the panacea for the virus. The error in anti-terrorism terrorism is that terrorists are not afraid to die and often crave martyrdom whether they are stateless or be-medaled agents of a state while the state frequently sponsors its own favorite terrorists against chosen enemies in proxy wars that tend to boomerang.

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  • Biko Agozino, 2015. "The Ire of Satire Meets the Error of Terror," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 20(4), pages 200-204, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:20:y:2015:i:4:p:200-204
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.3791
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    Terror; Error; Satire; Ire; Imperialism; Africa;
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