Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Defining Terrorists


How strange it is that language can betray

certain anomalies in social discrimination

linking words and their values both to

events and to perpetrators and victims. 

Infamously in New York City terrorists

cunningly with extreme prejudice infiltrated 

the pilot-training industry to avail themselves

of limited practise in what would ultimately

become a wholesale slaughter of horrendous

proportions. Belgium, France, Britain, Spain and

other countries of the West had experience of

terrorist attacks, mourning the deaths of their

nationals at the bloody hands of terrorists. Yet

any time that Jews are violently attacked or

an atrocity targets Jews as in high-profile events

where terrorists infiltrated Munich to entrap

and murder competitive athletes who happened

to be Israeli, who happened to be Jews the

nomenclature chosen to describe terrorists

is 'activists', their deadly crime diminished by

the anodyne descriptive tinged with emotive

sympathy not for the victims but the killers.

 

 

No comments: