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"Vigilantes"? People who express strong disapproval via email are vigilantes now? My goodness, back in my day that term meant something a bit stronger than voca
by chc 14y ago
"Vigilantes"? People who express strong disapproval via email are vigilantes now? My goodness, back in my day that term meant something a bit stronger than vocal disagreement. So what do we now call people who engage in the sort of violent behavior that used to be called vigilantism?
- jcc80 14y agoWe call them terrorists. And the rest of the world has picked up on this new vocabulary too. "Syria is at war against armed groups that choose terrorism." -Bashar al-Assad
- ericd 14y agoThat used to mean something more specific, though...
- dkhenry 14y agoThe people calling for his website to be hacked are the specific vigilantes I am speaking to.