Why are white armed militia called rebels/separatists/militias, any other skin color, terrorists?

[Fred Sanders]

It is the same thing wherever you look in the media, the good guys and the bad guys and the really really bad guys are always able to be made out, it is so simple.


When all the guys are brown and just killing and terrorizing each other, then it is best to just ignore them, ergo Iraq for the last two years until one group of brown guys discovered that roaming the countryside in pickup trucks and terrorizing the population came with benefits, then the media paid attention.

If all the roaming bands of heavily armed and loosely organized white militias in America were black, what would the media call and do with them?

Sometimes it all just seems to be a war on semantics, but because words matter so much more in times of war and conflict the semantical war is as important as the real war.

That is all.

[bravenak]

1. You know why.

Most people don"t even know they're doing it. They get called terroristsin their own countries by foreign armies that murder their civilians.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. +1000

[snooper2]

2. because some fundies are considered "better?" than other fundies?

I agree with you though-


for example-
The pro Rus-Si-A assholes continuing to try to break apart Ukraine are definitely terrorists-

[geek tragedy]

4. I have no trouble calling the thugs in East Ukraine 'terrorists' nt

[jakeXT]

5. Freedom Fighters

[NutmegYankee]

8. ...

[NutmegYankee]

6. Many Militant groups in Africa and Asia are called rebels.

Same in South America. It depends more on the mission and less on the skin color.

[riderinthestorm]

7. Not sure that's exactly true. The Tsarnaev brothers are white

And have clearly been labelled terrorists.



But yeah, there is a trend that's true. Remember the Katrina pics? Black folks grabbing bread out of a store were looters. White folks were survivors

[NutmegYankee]

11. The Katrina controversy on photo captions was incorrect.

http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/looters.asp

Different photographers with different scenes and different circumstances. It true that the media treats blacks as dangerous, but this wasn't a good case to use.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Excuse me Fred, there are some Irish gentlemen here who'd like to speak with you about this....

nt

[Calista241]

10. Have they done anything?

Other than run around the woods with their guns? And posting dumb pictures to the internet?