Wow this election sure needed a terrorist attack to make everyone feel great about the political future
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And there's no easy linguistic way to to distinguish these acts from 9/11 because of the eliding of all categories of terror
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American discourse since 2001 has used "terror" in a particular way. That can't be ignored.https://twitter.com/rev_chas/status/742512846559318016 …
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Was it wrongheaded and racialized and Islamophobic? Yes. But it happened.
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And the idea that terror came from abroad was used to start wars. Hard to ignore that the same logic could happen all over again.
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THe same was true of San Bern, though.
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yes, I was alluding to SB here
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Ah, thought you were just talking Pulse. Pulse is still more complicated than SB, it appears, but...
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yeah, does seem more complex but the tenuousness of the ISIS connection seems similar
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We still don't know what the LA guy was doing (which is fine--let LAPD investigate!), but disparate treatment is telling.
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guy probably had as much to do with ISIS as he did with the NYPD
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that's what I think tbh but I hesitate to outright say bc facts are still coming in
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but that is isis M.O. right? They claim responsibility for horrible shit that furthers their agenda even when not involved...
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Some have called it hashtag terrorism.
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