Singer Nezza Getting Death Threats After Singing Anthem in Spanish at Dodgers Game
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Latin American pop singer Vanessa Hernández is getting death threats for singing the National Anthem in Spanish at a baseball game ... but, she's still proud she did it, and she says big-time celebs have her back.
  • WrenM
    6•20 hours ago

    “Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.”

    So… no, I think I got it right. I mean, its root is from the Latin word- “terror”. A threat of death is sure to cause such a feeling in most people. So- in this form, the threat illustrates the act of one person terrorizing another. Therefore- one who terrorizes is a terrorist by definition.

    This is not a stretch to arrive at this conclusion. That it sounds foreign might be a result of the normalization of violence.

    • @grue@lemmy.world
      1•13 hours ago

      Your previous comment left out the “to achieve political or ideological aims” part, which is the essential difference between terrorism and regular violence.

      • WrenM
        2•7 hours ago

        “Ideological” pretty much covers everything else. A threat to kill is an act of terrorism.

        I think what’s happening here, is that murder has become so normalized that we have reached a point where the word “terrorism” has to have some special definition that excludes it from the regular run-of-the-mill terror one would experience when they’re life is threatened for whatever reason.

        I mean, would you feel terror if someone threatened your life in a way that you truly believed you were in danger?

        Oh, and she sung a song in Spanish, and was threatened with death for not singing in American English. That screams political to me…