How to stop terrorism: embark on a 30 year process of recoding masculinity to something healthier and ensure the next generation's success.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
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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Replying to @AManInTheSun @EmilyGorcenski
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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Replying to @AManInTheSun @EmilyGorcenski
Signifying them both as "terrorism" doesn't help from an analytical standpoint.
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Replying to @AManInTheSun
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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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @AManInTheSun
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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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Defining something as terrorism or not definitely matters, like in this case. What I meant:
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Replying to @AManInTheSun @EmilyGorcenski
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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Replying to @AManInTheSun
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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