Mastodawn

I had someone tell me that Antifa were terrorists last night, in a European hackerspace. Because demonstrations can be violent.

Dunno who needs to hear this, but I grew up through the Troubles. I know what *real* terrorism is. It's not violent protests, by any means, even if they are unpleasant and you don't like them.

The inflation of that word to mean anything you don't like has to stop. Just hope and pray that you don't end up in a place that has real terrorism. You really don't want that.

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Skjeggtroll

@JennyList

I think three boxes have to be checked in order to call someone a terrorist: 1) they have to engage in violence, 2) against civilian targets, 3) with the purpose of effecting political change.

One can always quibble about what constitutes violence or a civilian target or what's a political change, I think one should at least be able to present an argument for each of these factors being present before calling something terrorism.