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Opinion: ‘Political Violence’ Is Terrorism, Call It What It Is
Is the assassination of a state lawmaker and the targeting of another, among many more on a list, not terrorism?
While legacy media refers to the attack as “political violence,” echoing the Department of Justice (DOJ), there is no question that the murder of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, along with the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife, is undoubtedly domestic terrorism. That the shooter had a list of other targets makes it more so, especially since, by definition, violence motivated by political aims is terrorism. So why not call it that?
Over the last several years, media bias has been evident in more cases than in previous years in the modern era, as I’ve reported on numerous occasions (here, here, here, and here). From Palestine and Ukraine to war coverage across the globe, white-centered media bias is seemingly growing, not going away. This has also been noted by overly biased immigration reporting that suggests noncitizens are criminals via language like “undocumented” or “illegal.”
There are many other issues where this is prevalent, such as the silence about record killings of unarmed civilians by police and growing maternal mortality rates among nonwhite women that are rarely reported on…
