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CableZL posted...

There has never been a hesitancy to call a terrorist a terrorist. There was a backlash against using a terroristic act to assume all people who even look like they're Muslims terrorists. We went to war in Iraq after 9/11 for some reason. Bush even declared "mission accomplished" after Saddam Hussein was captured, even though Osama bin Laden was still out there.

Cesar Altieri Sayoc is Filipino and he was called a terrorist in 2019 when he mailed bombs to multiple people who were criticizing Trump.

Calling someone a terrorist was never inherently considered a dog whistle for racism against Muslims. Calling someone a terrorist just because they appear to be Muslim was and is considered a dog whistle for racism against Muslims.

You must have never ever hung around ultra liberal circles if you thought people never ever criticized the term terrorist in a very general context. Like you couldn't ever say the term terrorist ESPECIALLY if there was a muslim student in the room in any context. It's because the term had been used so extensively against them for so long that many felt the term shouldn't be used at all.

Like go ahead and talk to a Muslim person around 2012 and use the word terrorist and then tell me the conversation won't at best get very awkward. You could tell just hearing the word made a lot of Muslim people uncomfortable, because it carried memories of discrimination.

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