• @grue@lemmy.world
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    14 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
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      8 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…