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How White Terrorism Isn’t Terrorism
If a Muslim bombed Nashville that’d be terrorism, and the entire Muslim community would blamed. Because it was a white man, however, media pulls out the thesaurus. Terrorism is black and white, except when it’s white. This racism around the word ‘terrorism’ has been getting brown people killed for decades, but now chickens have come home to roost. Now it’s killing you.
The contortions of your press to call Nashville anything but terrorism would be hilarious, were it not so dire. American ‘terrorism’ propaganda, laundered through its press, has killed over 1 million people killed and displaced over 37 million. The spectre of brown terrorism is the wind beneath your drones.
The real air cover comes from your media. The word ‘terrorism’ makes it OK to torture, abduct, murder and occupy people because terrorism is so scary. People in Idaho are so scared of something that will never happen to them that they must see blood in Yemen, and the media keeps them scared. If one Muslim does anything it’s everywhere, and it’s on all Muslims. It’s one thing, done by one people, and never isolated events. ‘Terrorism’ dehumanizes Muslims, and you can see it in the vast rhetorical leaps the press is taking to humanize the Nashville bomber. Because he’s…
