We all know the narrative. The "left" is soft on Islamic extremists and Islamic terrorism, and this is because they are too afraid of being called "racist". While they is likely some truth to it, it another thought occurred to me - could this be, at least in part, due to the fact that those tactics by the extremists actually worked? Could it be because these people are actually afraid of those extremists and it's their way of appeasing them, in the hope that they'll be spared? If the last two years have thought us anything, it's that complying with tyranny is all the rage among these people.
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As you've pointed out though, they don't think. Instead, they feel. My point wasn't that this was a conscious decision, but rather a subconcious one. And I think they're afraid of Islamic extremists, because the terrorist tactics actually succeeded in doing what these tactics aim to do - instil fear in a population. Because these people are afraid, they capitulate. The whole "we don't want to be racist" thing could be a rationalisation of why they are doing it.
The reason this matters is that it hints towards tactics that might work against them. They are ultimately, well, wusses. It probably won't take much to get them to capitulate when push comes to shove.