Poll of the Day > Why are random acts of violence always blamed on terrorism these days?

(+) Yeah! (+)

It's like a buzzword
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Because blaming it on anything else wouldn't allow them to fuel their own hate.

*Random person stabbed*

"TERRORISTS!"
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Easier ratings, cheaper reporting and journalism. Everybody wins.

Well a lot of the time these attacks are terrorism. Also the intent of terrorism is to drive up paranoia and irrationality, so if it's doing that, it's obviously extremely effective.

If you're talking less about domestic attacks and more about problems in the Middle East which often aren't technically terrorism (though often are), it's because the social-political-religious issues that have led to conflict with a large number of factions are extremely complex and wide spread and not often well understood by those who aren't experts in the field, so in essence it is a buzzword to label Middle Eastern factions who aren't fans of the West.
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Blighboy posted...

Well a lot of the time these attacks are terrorism. Also the intent of terrorism is to drive up paranoia and irrationality, so if it's doing that, it's obviously extremely effective.

If you're talking less about domestic attacks and more about problems in the Middle East which often aren't technically terrorism (though often are), it's because the social-political-religious issues that have led to conflict with a large number of factions are extremely complex and wide spread and not often well understood by those who aren't experts in the field, so in essence it is a buzzword to label Middle Eastern factions who aren't fans of the West.

Mostly I'm comparing the London attack to the Orlando attack. A disgruntled worker killed more people, ehhhh - day in the life
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It's only considered terrorism when it's non-whites committing them.

Because patriarchy.
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Lokarin posted...

Mostly I'm comparing the London attack to the Orlando attack. A disgruntled worker killed more people, ehhhh - day in the life

So when you say "always" in the title, you really mean, like once?
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Dreaming_King posted...

Lokarin posted...

Mostly I'm comparing the London attack to the Orlando attack. A disgruntled worker killed more people, ehhhh - day in the life

So when you say "always" in the title, you really mean, like once?

Don't forget the white supremacist in Canada who shot up a mosque or the white supremacist in Portland who stabbed 3 people for standing up for some Muslim girls.
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Erik_P posted...

Dreaming_King posted...

Lokarin posted...

Mostly I'm comparing the London attack to the Orlando attack. A disgruntled worker killed more people, ehhhh - day in the life

So when you say "always" in the title, you really mean, like once?

Don't forget the white supremacist in Canada who shot up a mosque or the white supremacist in Portland who stabbed 3 people for standing up for some Muslim girls.

Also 9/11.
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Sensual_T_Rex posted...

Erik_P posted...

Dreaming_King posted...

Lokarin posted...

Mostly I'm comparing the London attack to the Orlando attack. A disgruntled worker killed more people, ehhhh - day in the life

So when you say "always" in the title, you really mean, like once?

Don't forget the white supremacist in Canada who shot up a mosque or the white supremacist in Portland who stabbed 3 people for standing up for some Muslim girls.

Also 9/11.

Never forget

One to even a few co-ordinated (but isolated) maniacs aren't really terrorists unless it's something on a huge scale, like the OKC bombing. ISIS, Chechen rebels, the IRA, etc., are/were legitimate terrorist groups. It's kind of a gray area, but I agree.
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