Language becomes policy! If we say we have a “terrorism” problem (even a white one), lawmakers will give us “counterterrorism” solutions. All of those will expand policing & surveillance that will ultimately harm us.
On the contrary, if we call them white supremacists, naming their movement as what it is, it demands a solution specific to that problem.
Truth-telling. Reparations. Facing our history as a nation founded on white supremacy & dismantling it bit by bit.
“Terrorism” as a label is inherently dangerous in its vagueness. I understand why we all want to use the most extreme words to describe the most egregious violence.
White supremacists HAVE been terrorizing Black, brown, indigenous folks for centuries.
But we can’t decouple that term from the state apparatus it manifests: the war on terror. Mass surveillance. Targeting Muslims, South Asians, Black people, communists, etc.
+ the reason this term holds so much weight is precisely b/c white ppl use it against Black & brown ppl.
Domestic terrorists who broke into US Capitol are crying because they’re on no fly list pic.twitter.com/0FCm3QqF0L
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) January 10, 2021
Daniel Uhlfelder is the lawyer who’s fought hard to keep Florida’s public beaches public, and dresses as the grim reaper to remind beachgoing maskholes about the danger they pose to themselves and others.
A video found on TikTok showed a sobbing man at the airport who found out that he’d been put on the no-fly list created and maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC).
Stopping the man from being able to go back to their home states can help local and federal law enforcement find the men before they flee or go into hiding.
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