YES! They’re only called terrorism when the shooter isn't white.
31%
NO! We should stop using the term altogether unless it’s warranted.
69%
Asked on Jun. 19, 2015 10:29 am
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Terrorism has become a handy catch-all for any acts--violent & non-violent--which challenge the official order. Persons & groups in solidarity with Palestinians are de facto terrorists according to our Zionist influenced press. Groups, like Hamas & Hezbollah, which are in actuality primarily self-defensive, are called terrorist.
The white supremacist movement is never termed terrorist, outside the Left media, because it is too close, in its core ideology, to the ruling paradigm of the times. The elite 1% in this country is lily-white, & fully intends to remain so.
Hamas and Hezbollah have sworn to the death of all Jews; men, women and children. But they don't just share this belief in peace, they idolize those that kill Jews and support any atrocities committed against the Jewish people. Jews on the other hand, have only asked for peace, to be left alone. In fact, Israel is a democracy that offers freedom, even political participation from Arabs. That is not the case in other Arab states. So there is no moral equivalence between Hamas, Hezbollah and the Jewish people. The media has painted Israel in a bad light, somehow equating disproportionate amounts force as somehow being inhumane. This new propaganda term is illogical because you cannot defend yourself from any determined enemy force without a disproportionate amount of force; it's how the Nazi's were defeated in WWII. In most cases, Israel is delivering these military strikes in defense of an attack on innocent civilians. History backs that up. Has Israel been perfect? No, but they have gone further than any other nation or group to minimize civilian deaths on both sides of the conflict, yet the terrorists hide their missiles in schools populated with children so that they can gain sympathy from the press. Israel has even gone as far as warning civilians in enemy states before they strike to give them time to evacuate. Hamas and Hezbolah do nothing of the kind to protect civilians. Further, I don't see Israel or America decapitating anyone, or purposely targeting women and children. So to lump America or Israel, even the top 1% (of whom the majority are leftist Democrats), in with groups that commit the most heinous acts against human kind, requires belief in a true fallacy. Propaganda is clouding the issue and misleading the public by overlooking some very relevant facts and exploiting civilian carnage of Arabs. Even Arab governments are starting to speak out against this false narrative, yet many on the left in this country are still buying into it.
The US uses the term to mean "someone who does not cooperate with our policy". A more thoughtful definition might mean an entity that sails a battleship up and down a coastline blowing up everything within sight, or covers children with flaming jellied petroleum, or covers the land with cluster bombs, or fills the skies with drones to slaughter at will, or eavesdrops on everyone's private conversations.
Since the Red Army crushed the Third Reich, there has been only one terrorist in the world: the evil empire, the USA.
Roland