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Double Standards
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What do you call someone who explodes a bomb and kills innocent people?
- A terrorist.
What do you call someone who drops a bomb from a plane and kills innocent people?
- A brave American pilot.
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What do you call it when a Palestinian uses violence against the Jews who have illegally occupied his land?
- A terrorist attack.
What do you call it when an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at Palestinian youths armed with stones?
- Self-defence.
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What do you call it when someone gives money to a government official in return for favors?
- Bribery.
What do you call it when a large corporation gives money to a government official in return for favors?
- A campaign contribution.
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What do you call the form of government where a small elite exploits and intimidates the citizens?
- A dictatorship.
What do you call the form of government where a small elite exploits and intimidates the citizens, and the citizens can choose every few years which part of the elite should occupy the government buildings?
- A democracy.
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What do you call it when someone carrying a gun enters your house and steals your valuable possessions?
- An armed robbery.
What do you call it when a multinational corporation supported by armed forces enters your country and steals your valuable possessions?
- Free trade.
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What do you call it when a group of people take the law into their own hands and kill people without a fair trial?
- A lynching.
What do you call it when the US takes the law into its own hands and kills people without a fair trial?
- Operation Enduring Freedom.
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What do you call someone who steals from the rich and gives to the poor?
- Robin Hood.
What do you call someone who steals from the poor and gives to the rich?
- The US government.
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What do you call a weapon that can kill thousands of people?
- A weapon of mass destruction.
What do you call a weapon that has killed 1.5 million Iraqis, including more than 500,000 children?
- Sanctions.
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What do you call an army that will fight for whoever pays the most money?
- Mercenaries.
What do you call an army in Afghanistan that will fight for whoever pays the most money?
- The Northern Alliance (or United Front).
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What do you call an attack on the Pentagon, a military command and control center in the US?
- A cowardly attack on American freedom and democracy.
What do you call the destruction of an Afghan village by US bombs?
- An attack on a Taliban military command and control center.
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What do you call it when just over 3 thousand people were killed in the September 11 attack on the US?
- An atrocity.
What do you call it when nearly 5 million people were killed in the Vietnam war?
- A mistake.
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What do you call it when very rich people exploit poor people?
- Greed and selfishness.
What do you call it when very rich countries exploit poor countries?
- Globalization.
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What do you call a foreign oppressor in the last century that controlled the economic and social life of a country?
- A colonialist power.
What do you call a foreign oppressor in this century that controls the economic and social life of a country?
- The International Monetary Fund.
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What do you call it when people are slaughtered?
- A massacre.
What do you call it when 100,000 to 200,000 Iraqis are slaughtered by the US at a loss to American forces of 148 (46 of which were killed by friendly fire)?
- The Gulf War.
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What do you call members of the Ku Klux Klan, a white racist organization?
- American patriots.
What do you call members of the Black Panther party, a black racist organization?
- Prisoners on death row.
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What do you call the extermination of a people?
- Genocide.
What do you call the extermination of native Americans in the US?
- A glorious episode in American history.
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What do you call a US president who says, "Read my lips - no new taxes", and later breaks his promise?
- George Bush.
What do you call a US president who says, "No new taxes - over my dead body", and later ...?
- George W. Bush.
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What do you call someone who stands up in front of a crowd and tells stories?
- An entertainer.
What do you call someone who stands up in front of a crowd at the Pentagon and tells stories?
- Donald Rumsfeld.
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What do you call a television station that broadcasts only the government's views?
- A propaganda station.
What do you call the BBC when the World News consists solely of half an hour of a Pentagon briefing?
- Fair and impartial.
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What do you call the 2002 presidential election in Zimbabwe where there were serious irregularities?
- A flawed election.
What do you call the 2000 presidential election in the US where there were serious irregularities?
- A victory for democracy.
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What do you call it when American Whites advocate an exclusively White state and the expulsion of all non-Whites?
- Racism.
What do you call it when Israeli Jews advocate an exclusively Jewish state and the expulsion of all non-Jews?
- Zionism.
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What is the name of the leader accused of trying to create an ethnically pure Greater Serbia?
- Slobodan Milosevic, now on trial as a war criminal.
What is the name of the leader trying to create an ethnically pure Greater Israel?
- Ariel Sharon, a "man of peace".
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What do you call a leader who sells out his country to a foreign power?
- A traitor, or Quisling.
What do you call a British leader who sells out his country to a foreign power?
- Tony Blair.
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Which Middle East country (whose name begins with I) does not possess nuclear weapons, has agreed to allow access to UN weapons inspectors, and is threatened with a military attack?
- Iraq.
Which Middle East country (whose name begins with I) possesses nuclear weapons, refuses to allow access to International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors and receives around $5 billion p.a. in aid from the US?
- Israel.
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What do you call it when Saddam Hussein kills his own people with chemical weapons?
- A crime against humanity.
What do you call it when the FBI uses chemical weapons to murder 96 US citizens (including women and children) in Waco, Texas?
- Law and order.
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