Will it still be call terrorism IF the person or persons who attacked Boston is found out

[diabeticman]

to be of white/christian and even Americans?


I bring this up because I see the use of Terrorism --WHICH THIS ACT IS-- being used by media and law enforcement and all THAN I hear people (some people) talking in my town still equating terrorism with Muslims and all Muslims as evil. How will they change the talk?

either all violence like this is terrorism OR not.


Thank you for letting me rant

[swayne]

1. Tim Wise wrote a pretty intense essay on this exact point earlier today....

As the nation weeps for the victims of the horrific bombing in Boston yesterday, one searches for lessons amid the carnage, and finds few. That violence is unacceptable stands out as one, sure. That hatred — for humanity, for life, or whatever else might have animated the bomber or bombers — is never the source of constructive human action seems like a reasonably close second.

But I dare say there is more; a much less obvious and far more uncomfortable lesson, which many are loathe to learn, but which an event such as this makes readily apparent, and which we must acknowledge, no matter how painful.

It is a lesson about race, about whiteness, and specifically, about white privilege.

I know you don’t want to hear it. But I don’t much care. So here goes.

White privilege is knowing that even if the Boston Marathon bomber turns out to be white, his or her identity will not result in white folks generally being singled out for suspicion by law enforcement, or the TSA, or the FBI.

White privilege is knowing that even if the bomber turns out to be white, no one will call for whites to be profiled as terrorists as a result, subjected to special screening, or threatened with deportation.

read the rest here:
http://www.timwise.org/2013/04/terrorism-and-privilege-understanding-the-power-of-whiteness/

[freshwest]

5. Thanks for the link. I appreciate his writings.

[diabeticman]

8. yes, thank you for the link.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. +1

[ChangeUp106]

2. No

And you can bet things will settle down pretty quick. We'll still have memorials and everything, but all the "we're not safe anywhere" talk will stop immediately.

[JDPriestly]

3. Terrorism is not necessarily defined just by the brutality of the act, but by

the purpose of the act -- why it was committed.

Those are my words.

[diabeticman]

9. true but if you notice the media when it seems to be someone other than

muslims some in our media refuse to call it a terrorist act it is instead stated as "extremist group"

[Warren Stupidity]

4. At this point it seems unlikely that this was an al Qaeda operation.

It still might be the work of radical Islamists, but if so they were likely independents. I'm now guessing that this is going to turn out to be home grown. So we may very well get a definitive answer to your question.

[Llewlladdwr]

6. I'm pretty sure everyone considers the OKC attack to be terrorism.

So yes, it will.

[Ecumenist]

7. Nope, it won't. When Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols, MURDERED THOSE PEOPLE AND

S.L.A.U.G.H.T.E.R.E.D those {{BABIES}} in their NURSERY SCHOOL that NOT SO LONG AGO MORNING.. NOONE...NOOOOOONE and I mean NOBODY announced that they were going to blow the heads off of every skinny blonde kid with buzz cuts OR were ADVOCATING Bombing SCOTLAND, GERMANY or any other European Country into a Vitrified Wasteland...NOONE EVER SAID THAT....E.V.E.R! So, NO, My Dear Welshman, IT'S WON'T BE!!

Don't believe me? Remember all those Scandinavian guys who were murdered because they were targetted for wearing DOC MARTENS and wearing Guns N' Roses Tees? Yeah, me neither. But how many dear sikhs, muslim Americans or other HUMAN BEINGS who fit the mindset of racist idiots are taking dirt naps today because they fit some stupid and assinine stereotype following 911?

I wrest my case.

[Llewlladdwr]

10. I....don't know what to say to this.

You have rendered me speechless Ecumenist.

[diabeticman]

11. Mc Vay is called an "Extremeist" by media today. It was an Extremist act". Granded

Progressive/left wing--however you wish to call it --media calls it a terrorist act HOWEVER most still call Nichols and McVay Extremists.

[cali]

14. really? YOU know what most still call Nichols and McVeigh? And it's McVeigh not McVay.

[cali]

13. Yes. And to those saying it won't be: Ridiculous.

McVeigh was and so will whoever perpetrated this. It's already being called terrorism by....everybody. Why DUers think that would change is a reflection of their bias and nothing more.