so weird how we’ve mangled the word terrorism around to mean impeding a military machine or body. maybe this is just my brain turning to worm food but I could have swore it was explicitly when you kill civilians or destroy infrastructure in order to coerce a policy change. but that alteration probably wasn’t intentional or for any specific purpose.
Eh, terrorism has always been a bullshit term. You just didn’t notice it. Governments perform “terrorism” all the fucking time, but they get to call it something else. Terrorism is just when you do something the state doesn’t like. Often it’s violent, and the term is used to maintain the state’s monopoly on violence, but it isn’t always. They’ve been allowed to influence public opinion using the term for far too long.
(Just in case, this comment is not condoning violence, only stating that the term terrorism is purposefully used by the state to turn people against specific groups.)
so weird how we’ve mangled the word terrorism around to mean impeding a military machine or body. maybe this is just my brain turning to worm food but I could have swore it was explicitly when you kill civilians or destroy infrastructure in order to coerce a policy change. but that alteration probably wasn’t intentional or for any specific purpose.
Eh, terrorism has always been a bullshit term. You just didn’t notice it. Governments perform “terrorism” all the fucking time, but they get to call it something else. Terrorism is just when you do something the state doesn’t like. Often it’s violent, and the term is used to maintain the state’s monopoly on violence, but it isn’t always. They’ve been allowed to influence public opinion using the term for far too long.
(Just in case, this comment is not condoning violence, only stating that the term terrorism is purposefully used by the state to turn people against specific groups.)