Shannon Trinh
ASA 2 - Section 1
Blog #6
Response to: Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism
and the Production of Docile Patriots
What really stood out to me in this reading was the
psychological side of terrorism. This is not just because I am a psychology
student, it’s because I never hear of the personality defect model being
addressed or brought up when it comes to this issue. In the reading, the authors make it easy to
see that the extremely dysfunctional family, abuse, loneliness, and struggles
with sexuality are very possible reasons of a “monster” in the making. The
failed psyche of a terrorist not only informs readers about how they come to
be, but it also puts a human face on a labeled group of people. The failed
psyche in no way justifies their actions or the lives that they have taken, but
it reminds us that although terrorists have inflicted devastating damage in
history, they are people with their own individual histories.
Question: Are their different perspectives/portrayals of
terrorists globally? Or are they seen in the same light everywhere?
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