Wow this election sure needed a terrorist attack to make everyone feel great about the political future
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I do want to add that in this case the liberal desire to expand the label of "terror" to domestic terror is doing something weird here
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Terror of course stopped being defined by attacks planned and orchestrated by organized groups abroad a while ago
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And eventually came to mean any attempted act of mass killing perpetrated by at least one Muslim.
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So the liberal response was to push domestic terror under the same label, and weirdly, to demand the same abrogations of civil liberties???
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Now there's a weird thing going on where terrorist attacks look like domestic terror with extremely tenuous connections to ISIS
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Namely, the perpetrators claim a connection and ISIS claims credit, but there isn't the same kind of orchestration seen in 9/11
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In fact the affiliation seems slapped on, if anything.
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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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sarah jeong a retweeté Completely Charles
American discourse since 2001 has used "terror" in a particular way. That can't be ignored.https://twitter.com/rev_chas/status/742512846559318016 …
sarah jeong ajouté,
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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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