• jpstacey

    flyingparchment I should’ve known better before asking a rhetorical q on Twitter but I find beginning tweets eg “Dear [conservatives]” arch

  • jpstacey

    flyingparchment I do too, which is why I clearly delineated the four or five checkboxes conservatives usually tick before using it

  • jpstacey

    flyingparchment not in the minds of the sort of people who tend to explain away why white people aren’t terrorists, no

  • flyingparchment

    jpstacey I mean, I’m not actually opposed in principal to actually calling the police terrorists too, I just dislike the word…

  • jpstacey

    flyingparchment and why my original tweet had a rhetorical bent, intending to underline the already corrupted nature of the label

  • flyingparchment

    jpstacey ‘armed thugs’ for ‘political ends’? Both of those apply to the police as well :-)

  • jpstacey

    flyingparchment which is why my original tweet had maybe 4-5 clauses in it, the final one of which (terrorizing) I now see satisfied

  • flyingparchment

    jpstacey many poor/Black communities in the US live in terror of the police; yet we don’t call the police terrorists.

  • flyingparchment

    jpstacey Well, generally ‘making people live in fear’ isn’t a sufficient requirement for labeling something ‘terrorism’. For example >

  • jpstacey

    flyingparchment I did see that article, in the context of being prior to actual local residents clearly being terrorized. No longer prior.

  • jpstacey

    flyingparchment I don’t see how I’m expanding it

  • KayWhitlock

    Powerful and important, Nancy. Thank you.

  • KayWhitlock

    nancy a heitzeg Oh, yes.

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