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by donkey_brains 60 days ago
I think you have to be at least remotely a sympathetic figure to be a martyr
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> you have to be at least remotely a sympathetic figure to be a martyr

No you don’t. Terrorists and dictators are routinely martyred. You just need symbolic value. The actual person rarely represents their canonized form.