French prosecutor appears to have argued bc co-pilot is German willfully taking down plane is not a terrorist attack?
@bmaz I'm not. I'm noting that it is a category that people are quick to jump to that is contingent, usu on ethnicity. @joanneleon
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@emptywheel@joanneleon I maintain that how you consistently phrase this point is extremely counterproductive. -
@bmaz OK. Pointing out we've invented a category different from other violence only in superimposed meaning is bad, acc to you@joanneleon -
@emptywheel@joanneleon Pointing it out is great; doing so by asking why every random act is not being called terrorism is not. -
@bmaz Where did I do that? Oh wait. I didn't. You're fighting a straw an, counselor.@joanneleon -
@emptywheel@joanneleon That would be exactly inference from your phrasing here: https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/581065053287378944 … Golly why isn't this called terror -
@bmaz Oh, YOU'RE inferring now and I'm the one making rash judgments? Um.@joanneleon -
@emptywheel@joanneleon Then you just go merrily on your way expanding "terrorism" where it does not factually and evidentially belong. -
@bmaz You're so fucking funny. Now you're arguing against yourself!@joanneleon
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