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I would be careful of assigning false equivalency considering a domestic terrorist act occurred against the counter-protesters.

• briandear 9y ago
  Was Reginald Denny’s attack during the LA riots considered a terrorist act? How about the Baltimore riots? We are really quick to label “domestic terror” when it suits our politics but rarely is it used to describe events such as the Baltimore riots or the Michael Brown riots. There is a double standard and I think that double standard is why we get a president like Trump. People are sick of being labeled racists, bigots or “extremists” because they don’t agree with left wing politics. No excuse for white supremists of course, but there ought not be an excuse for anti-white rhetoric either. The very term “White privilege” is racist to the core. Ideas like “black lives matter” or “La Raza” are racist by definition.
  • Navarr 9y ago
    Intentionally driving a several thousand pound death machine into a group of people with the intent to harm, murder, and frighten them doesn't deserve any other label. I can't make any comment on the Baltimore or LA riots - I don't know enough.
  • dandersh 9y ago
    No, you are excusing white supremacists, first by employing whataboutism and then incorrectly equating movements that are meant to lift up groups of people with ideas that are meant to hold down groups of people. "Terrorism" is being applied because it has been used on multiple previous occasions to describe the act of driving an automobile through a crowd of people. The only double standard employed here is the one you are utilizing to not apply the definition of "terrorism" because the perpetrator was an overly sensitive white male who is easily triggered by left wing politics. Trump happened because a culture of spoiled, self-entitled people can't grow up and adjust to a world where not everything revolves around them. Instead of playing the victim and crying about being called a racist or a bigot, maybe people should stop acting like racists and/or making excuses for them? Just a thought.
  • valuearb 9y ago
    Terrorism is "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims". It doesn't have any specific ethnic label attached to it.
  • tptacek 9y ago
    An idea like "black lives matter" is obviously not racist by definition.