• KeenFlame@feddit.nu
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    8 months ago

    No. Terrorism is when you destabilise the feeling of safety somewhere by attacking civilians

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      8 months ago

      people are responsible for their own emotions. the only reasonable definition of terrorism is activity that the existing political status quo does not approve. that’s it. it doesn’t need to attack someone. it doesn’t need to be violent. the Boston tea party was terrorism as surely as the assassination of the arch duke.

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        8 months ago

        But it’s not the definition. It’s when you destabilise using fear of death and attack violently civilians to create that fear

        Only in usa you make terrorism mean “enemy”

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          8 months ago

          i think you’re going to have to come to grips with the fact that you are not the arbiter of the meaning of terrorism, and its useful meaning has nothing to do with emotions.

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            8 months ago

            So stop saying it’s something else? I’m not the arbiter but you are? It does mean killing civilians to create fear