rule - Lemmy Cafe

To clarify, white people are actually slightly underrepresented in terrorism per capita; they simply constitute a significant majority of the population and therefore do most of the terrorism. Therefore, while this tweet is technically correct, it should not be taken to mean that white individuals are more likely to be terrorists—it’s an ironic reflection on the skewed, racially motivated reality presented to us by media and politicians. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-releases-lone-offender-terrorism-report-111319 [https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-releases-lone-offender-terrorism-report-111319] https://www.statista.com/chart/19968/the-race-ethnicity-of-lone-offender-terrorists/ [https://www.statista.com/chart/19968/the-race-ethnicity-of-lone-offender-terrorists/] https://www.theroot.com/are-white-men-americas-biggest-terror-threat-we-checke-1830175112 [https://www.theroot.com/are-white-men-americas-biggest-terror-threat-we-checke-1830175112] https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/14/fbi-and-dhs-warned-of-growing-threat-from-white-supremacists-months-ago/ [https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/14/fbi-and-dhs-warned-of-growing-threat-from-white-supremacists-months-ago/]

For it to be terrorism it has to be motivated by political or religious ideology. So all the highschool kids who snap and murder a bunch of their classmates: not terrorism. However: the IRA or Timothy McVeigh or the Unabomber: definitely terrorism.
I think that’s an unnecessary splitting of hairs, because both the Unabomber and the school shooter become political in the aftermath