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𝐊𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍 𝐊𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐍 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐌 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐘 — 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐓’𝐒 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓
Konstantin Kisin constructed one of the most airtight analogies I’ve ever heard for why Western governments refuse to confront Islamist terrorism honestly.
He opens with a premise: 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴. A small percentage of green apples are toxic and can k!ll people. If you’re the public health authority, what do you do? You devote resources to identifying the toxic ones, crack down on distribution, and maybe pause importing green apples until you can separate the bad from the good.
But what if you spent the last 𝟐𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 insisting all apples are the same? That anyone questioning green apples is a bigot? That importing them without checks is a moral imperative? Then toxic green apples start k!lling people — 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡.
Now you have a choice. Admit you were wrong and that your policies got people k!lled. Or double down and scream that 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩 and that 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯.
That’s exactly what they chose.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫-𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
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