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I'm sorry, but you're going to have to be specific. Saying "antifa" does not imply a singular group. The same way "KKK" does not imply a singular group.
by 0xy 6y ago
I'm sorry, but you're going to have to be specific. Saying "antifa" does not imply a singular group. The same way "KKK" does not imply a singular group.
- dpau 6y ago"The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization" https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1267129644228247552 https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/12671296442282475...
- 0xy 6y agoTerrorist organisations are not necessarily singular groups. Al-Qaeda for example.
- ben_w 6y agoTrump tweeted: "The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization". This implies a singular group, a singular group which the consensus seems to be does not exist.
- 0xy 6y agoIt does not imply a singular group. For example, Al-Qaeda is classified as a terrorist organization despite being made up of several structures and groups. It implies a collective.
- rudiv 6y agoIf you'd checked the example you rely upon further down you'd have seen that in fact the individual Al-Qaeda groups are listed specifically in the State Department's listed of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Now obviously I don't have the authority to say why that is, but it seems reasonable to presume that they are listed as separate organizations because they are, in fact, separate organizations.
- luckylion 6y agoNot necessarily. You don't want vague language in official documents, so you have to be specific, because you'd just shift the problem if you said "Al-Qaeda", since you now need an official list of Al-Qaeda-Subgroups. If it would allow nesting, I'm pretty sure somebody would've already accidentally put Al-Qaeda under Ansar al-Sunna and cause a recursion error, blowing up DC.