They just met online like everyone else these days

You read about British girls doing this because it’s easier for people in Britain to travel to Turkey, but it’s not just British girls.

Because they didn’t fly to a hostile country. They flew to a country that markets itself as vacation resort, which has a sizable amount of UK teenagers going to and to which a lot of UK teenagers these days have ethnic and family links to, and then they arranged overland travel to the hostile area. One of the girls…

That’s really insightful. I thought I wanted to stay in the UK with my partner, but the anti-immigrant vibe is strong and off-putting to me and I’m an educated, white, native English-speaker so I can only imagine how totally unwelcome others without my privileges might feel.

They should have done a season of the Bachelorette about it.

Thank you for that.

Feeling marginalized by external Western culture and internal familial/ethnic culture has a lot to do with it, I think.

Over half of the terrorists associated with the Islamic State are middle-class, well-educated people. ISIL itself is well-funded, well-armed, and even its rank-and-file soldiers are wealthier than the average people in that region. This is not a decision of last resort for the terrorists. ISIL has an appeal to them.

Can’t believe I’m responding to you, but please review the linked Guardian article, or any of the many articles about this story, and point out to me where it insinuates in any manner that they were raised to be “religious fundamentalists.”

*Waits patiently for the eventual books from former Isis brides*

I made a snarky comment about the current state of England (and the British isles as a whole, really), but I do think it’s worth examining how three young and by all accounts vibrant and gifted girls could be so unhappy and/or disenfranchised with their lives that they could be successfully brainwashed to join ISIS,…

So they actually have binders full of men over there?

Found the catalog.

I can and I did.

I was referring to the tendency of white people to want to honor tragedies when white people are the ones suffering, but then encourage everyone to “move on” or “heal” when POC are the victims.

Right? WTF. No wonder white people colonized the world. Even today they find new and creative ways to insert themselves into every single space.

Zap: “Seeing PoC on TV like that was really important to me as a kid.”

I thought LeAnne and Norma both had entertaining—if not realistic—back stories, but good god, the Norma worship circle annoyed me to no end. Anyone else? Maybe it was just because I binge-watched the season over a few days, but they seemed to have the same argument in every episode, and it all seemed very clunky and…