To clarify, white people are actually slightly underrepresented in terrorism per capita; they simply constitute a significant majority of the population and therefore do most of the terrorism. Therefore, while this tweet is technically correct, it should not be taken to mean that white individuals are more likely to be terrorists—it’s an ironic reflection on the skewed, racially motivated reality presented to us by media and politicians.
Source:
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-releases-lone-offender-terrorism-report-111319
https://www.statista.com/chart/19968/the-race-ethnicity-of-lone-offender-terrorists/
https://www.theroot.com/are-white-men-americas-biggest-terror-threat-we-checke-1830175112
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/14/fbi-and-dhs-warned-of-growing-threat-from-white-supremacists-months-ago/
Gruesomely mass murdering civilians using bombs to get the rest to comply with your will is only “Terrorism” if the bombs were placed on the ground and then exploded, not when they were dropped from the air.
Hence the smaller per-capita representation of white people in the count of terrorists.
HAHAHA this is such good analysis.
A similar statistical anomaly is that more men are sexually assaulted in the armed forces than women, but it’s just because there are much more of them overall. An individual woman is still more likely to be assaulted than an individual man.
As always, the takeaway is that demographics are not what must be addressed when addressing violence. The systemic artifacts that enable and foster terrorism or SA are the problem, never simply structures like gender or race.
The conservative mindset ignores this and just introduces more violence to the equation, saying “let’s ban women from spaces” and “let’s deport brown people.” And act surprised when those solutions make the problem worse, not better.
And when they do raise issues like sexual assault against men, it’s pretty much only ever as a counterpoint to derail discussions about sexual assault against women and avoid doing anything about either, which I would argue is also pretty disrespectful towards men.
Absolutely. “Men can be victims too” is such an important truth and it’s nauseating when the phrase is leveraged in support of radical apathy toward SA.
That’s because we don’t do terrorism, we do mental health issues
*stands outside house and claps in appreciation.*
“There. If that doesn’t solve our issues I dont know what will.”~ Tory Government, circa not long ago.
What did the whites do? We only murdered a shitload of minorities. Oh shit, do minorities also care if you murder their family?
whites went to other people’s land, mass murdered almost everyone and then tortured the survivors for centuries.
next to that, ISIS may as well be a group of shoplifters
Have you heard of jokes?
yea? I was just continuing on what you said
Re your subtext, you have to account for what actually gets labeled as terrorism. A brown, bearded, muslim looking person could pee on the side of the road and have it classified as terrorism
Obviously they were trying to destroy the Western civilastion as whole, it’s not like sometimes people end up pissing outsie because you can’t find free public toilets anyfuckingwhere!
Question: do we attribute Russia’s actions to terrorism? I would wager yes, as it can easily be labeled as a terrorist state at this point. In that case, I think we can give them lots of credit, right?
Ummm I don’t really know what actions you mean.
In any case, by most standards Russian individuals would be called white, haha.
I think that’s the point. Also, I think they are referring to Ukraine and interference with elections of other nations.
Ah I see. I don’t know that many definitions of terrorism include invasion and election interference—that’s another category of crime as far as I am aware.
TBH, I don’t know any definitions of terrorism that are self consistent (that being, including everything that is definitely terrorism while discluding everything that definitely isn’t.)
Ken Cheng is the true princess of our hearts.
