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"terrorism" doesn't mean much any more. Violence targeted against groups with different origins or beliefs for the purpose of sowing unrest and causing fear in
by quesera 11y ago
"terrorism" doesn't mean much any more.
Violence targeted against groups with different origins or beliefs for the purpose of sowing unrest and causing fear in others?
They did eliminate the Sandy Hook guy and others due to broad antisocial attitudes without specific targets. So they did make an effort of sorts...but I'm sure they have an agenda to promulgate, I just haven't bothered to read what it might be.
- soylentcola 11y agoI think if there's any agenda, it's to look for any trends in ideological terrorism in the US. Honestly, I think one thing the data shows that wasn't mentioned is that there's relatively little ideologically motivated terrorism in the US overall (compared to the prominent place terrorism holds in the national conversation). This isn't to belittle the death of 74 people in terrorist attacks but once you get past the morbidity of death tolls and averages, 74 victims over 14 years (5 or so per year avg) strikes me as a fairly low number when compared to the typical weight that such attacks are given in policy discussions.