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I'm trying to empathise with them... I get why people become radicals of other kinds... but saying no music, no sex, live by the book, behead those who disagree... what part of that makes people think "I want to get into this, this sounds fun"?

The Arab world has valid grievances, which motivated 9-11 for example, but there's more to it than that.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

"they find that a disproportionate share of Islamist radicals come from an engineering background, and that Islamist and right-wing extremism have more in common than either does with left-wing extremism, in which engineers are absent while social scientists and humanities students are prominent."

Sure, we get told that we don't understand muh basic economics, but we sure as hell better understand economics than fascists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Given the engineers I've known, that feels harsh on Fundamentalists as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I never would have expected CHUDs to be pulled to engineering TBH. Maybe coding, but not the rest of the engineering discipline.

That being said, I'm pretty sure the CHUDs in civil engineering are more rare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is purely an American perspective, but I failed out of an engineering university, it was a graduate-to-Boeing pipeline.

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