Once again conservative Terrorism wins.
this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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Please don't call things you don't like terrorism. Calls to boycott Target are not terrorism in the same way that calls to divest from Israeli companies are also not terrorism.
I don't want to live in the V For Vendetta universe where anything the people in power don't like is considered terrorism. I'm sure you don't either.
And before you attack my character and call me a sympathizer - no. I'm gay. These ppl are stupid for getting mad about pride. But it's not fucking terrorism.
May 2023 - "Target removes some Pride Month products after threats against employees" https://www.npr.org/2023/05/24/1177963864/target-pride-month-lgbtq-products-threats
Terrorism is an appropriate word here. Threats of violence to achieve political goals. They threatened employees with violence because the store chose to offer those items. I'm not really sure how much more clear cut it can get. Terrorism isn't just killing people.
terrorism /tĕr′ə-rĭz″əm/ noun
- The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.
- The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.
- The practice of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.
- The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create an emotional response through the suffering of the victims in the furtherance of a political or social agenda.
- Violence against civilians to achieve military or political objectives.
- A psychological strategy of war for gaining political or religious ends by deliberately creating a climate of fear among the population of a state.
- The calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear.
You sound exactly like the people on /pol/ explaining how Palestine protestors and BLM protestors are terrorists. Same talking points as the average trumper.
Target received a lot of fucking death threats for pride last year - there have definitely been awful people in the pro-Palestine protests that have threatened personal violence but those people are rare and called out by other protesters.
The Target protests were predicated on violence - the Gaza protests are predicated on peace and only threaten economic damage. One of these things is terrorism and one isn't.
Yeah man, referencing the dictionary and how a word is used vs the nonsense framing you've chosen. Some crazy shit.
I think you are getting down voted because most here hate liberals more than they hate rightwingers, and your response was about as liberal as it gets.
Quiet Pride isn't Pride - Pride is loud.