That seems unsurprising to me, given that nobody actually calls themselves a “terrorist”. The tendency to call anyone a terrorist if they blow something up, merely because “terrorist” is the worst insult we have in our vocabulary, is what causes this confusion, I feel.
That seems unsurprising to me, given that nobody actually calls themselves a “terrorist”. The tendency to call anyone a terrorist if they blow something up, merely because “terrorist” is the worst insult we have in our vocabulary, is what causes this confusion, I feel.
Gwern has some interesting points about how “terrorism” is not really about terror: http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror