I’m in the US.

I haven’t discerned a pattern, by the media, in the titling of the horror currently underway.

I’ve seen Al Jazeera use both phrasings. I haven’t determined that other media sites are hardlining their terminology either, but I notice the difference as I browse.

Maybe it doesn’t mean anything, but these days people seem extra sensitive about names.

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    11 months ago

    They’re terrorists though, so it’s perfectly appropriate.

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        11 months ago

        It’s an objective fact that Hamas are a terrorist organization. They’re classified as that the world over.

        What you’re saying is like “murderer is loaded language” when someone calls someone that intentionally killed someone a murderer.

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          11 months ago

          that classification is made by political organizations. it’s no more objective than national borders.