10-06-2017, 12:37 PM
(10-06-2017, 10:40 AM)Matt_Crimson Wrote: Which brings up another question. Does anyone believe the Charlottesville car attack was/was not terrorism?
No, not even a little. Based on the evidence the incident appears to be a spur of the moment decision. I think the guy got scared/angry and punched the gas. How much discussion has there been about people blocking roads and people commenting on how they'd plow through the crowd? I think, in the split second the human brain makes these types of decisions, all of that went through his head; fear, anger, annoyance, etc. I don't think it's logical to think he thought something along the lines of, "If I plow my car through this group of people I'll be scaring them from protesting against white supremacy in the future".
The problem is you have racists out there in Guardian land who are upset that white shooters are called terrorists, stating that's a label for "brown" shooters. This stems from both a fundamental misunderstanding of the definition of terrorism (thanks media) and the fact that many people want to make every issue about ethnicity. No one hesitated to label McVeigh a terrorist, because he clearly was one. Trust me, if a white dude shot up a post office while yelling "Allah ackbar!" while doing it, he'd be labeled a terrorist in half a second. Motivation makes an act terrorism, not skin color.
