Muslim, Christian; Immigrant, Citizen; White, Arab... doesn't seem to matter but it's damn near guaranteed the terrorist is male.
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And so often they are domestic abusers, too. The College Park killer? Bet he's got some lovely opinions about women, too.
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This isn't misandry-Emily speaking, either. If you are hurting so bad under the weight of masculinity that you want to kill innocents...
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...then you need help under a different framework where that pressure is relieved.
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why should a woman choose what's masculine?
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because we keep getting killed
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by what?
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men mainly
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I'm sorry, but this completely ignores geopolitical factors, not to mention that the term "terrorism" is arbitrary and not a monolith.
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For example, you can't compare someone shooting up a cinema to ISIS. Ideology, reasoning, means, none of it are the same.
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Signifying them both as "terrorism" doesn't help from an analytical standpoint.
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It actually does, as classifications of terror change how media covers an incident and how governments respond. It has material meaning.
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The US government shut down its unit that would investigate racial terror, like Dylan Roof. That is a huge deal with real consequences.
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Defining something as terrorism or not definitely matters, like in this case. What I meant:
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Trying to understand everything that falls under terrorism in the same way is not the best way to go about it. It's not a monolith.
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Of course not. But across incidents and regions there is really only one thread that is in common so maybe let's not ignore it?
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Hmm or maybe just stop letting terrorists in? Crazy.
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The Manchester bomber was born and raised in England, nice try.
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Dylan Roof was born and raised in the US.
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