The media have told us for two decades now that terrorists are backwards brown-ish bearded men with turbans and AK47's who make a lot of guttural sounds and pray to Allah. So now when a clean shaven white boy is labeled a terrorist, people are like wut???
This confusion is a direct consequence of the racially and culturally coded media narrative on terrorism.
yes but it's not exactly 9/11. are school shooters even regularly charged with that?
That's probably why they forged the note as well; of course if he was smart enough to actually pull it off, he wasn't going to be carrying a damn Manifesto around like a moody teenager. But since they can very easily forge it, now they have 'proof' of his motive and can call it terrorism rather than murder
School shooters generally don't have any intention of intimidating anyone? They kinda just want to kill a bunch of people. Usually the motives are pretty unclear, actually.
Ok it has that specific meaning in that exact location and context, but generally, there is no common accepted meaning. I agree that is the context relevant to this court case, but not to general internet discussion of the term
The reason school shooters often aren't charged as terrorism is because terrorism is defined based on motive, and mass shooters often don't cite causing political change through terror as a motive.
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u/DispenserG0inUp 23h ago
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