Counterpoint: we shouldn't even treat terrorism like terrorism.https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/989172318042812416 …
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Here in Austin, for example, people were generally upset when the police said this wasn't an act of terrorism, since people were clearly terrified. But I think that was purely emotional, and I worry that it just muddles things once things calm down.
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The charitable take is that they mean it should be a higher enforcement priority for the police. The uncharitable one is that they think we should ignore a bunch of civil liberties to do so.
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Yeah, it becomes really difficult to say, "We shouldn't judge Islam based on some lone actors or nefarious groups within it," and then say, "Look, this guy with politics we don't like committed terrorism, which is an indictment of the politics we don't like."
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I think it's rhetorical and primarily the result of unconscious slips in argumentation
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That is, you start at "terrorism is less dangerous than many other types of violence" and end up at "more dangerous types of violence should be called terrorism" without ever meaning to change
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I think it's something like this too, but it's also really dangerous, and dangerous in ways that liberals seemed to be aware of circa 2004, but seem blind to now.
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