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.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://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/14/fbi-and-dhs-warned-of-growing-threat-from-white-supremacists-months-ago/

  • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    This is not quite accurate. One definition of terrorism from the FBI:

    International terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups who are inspired by, or associated with, designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored)

    Domestic terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature

    You are correct that many (not sure about percentage) school shootings would not be considered terrorism by this definition, though, and I agree with you on that. White people do a lot of terrorism outside of schools though and that’s the point of the post.

    • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      My point is that noone is looking at the IRA and crying mental illness. Furthermore, if you look at the Wikipedia pages for people like Anders Behring Breivik, Ted Kaczynski, and Timothy McVeigh, they all refer to them as terrorists. Whereas people like James Holmes are listed as mass murderers because their crimes were not politically motivated.