A white couple who burned a cross in their yard facing Black neighbors' home are investigated by FBI
A white couple who burned a cross in their yard facing Black neighbors' home are investigated by FBI
The FBI is investigating a white South Carolina couple for racial discrimination after they set a cross on fire in their yard facing toward their Black neighbors’ home.
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They should be jailed for terrorism.
No, but they could probably be charged with hate crime.
Terrorists do shit like this to people who look just like them, don't look like them, don't even know what they look like. They do shit like this to get their way.
These are terrorists. Hiding behind the respectability of some imaginary sky fairy giving them the magical right to inflict their views and opinions and actions on anyone and everyone else.
Not as bad as blowing up a bus full of children or beating to death a cop on the steps of the capital building, granted, but if it's intended to instill terror in someone then guess what that's called? Yep. That's terrorism. And an organization that uses terrorist methods to achieve it's end? Guess what that's called? Yep again! Those are terrorists. And the whole "white is right" bullshit that's been killing and scaring black folks for hundreds of years? Those are terrorists. No matter if they're southern baptist, kkk, prod "boys", or any other brand of right wing fascist walking talking fuckstick - they're committing terrorism against American citizens who have every right to enjoy America under the same laws these shit ladles seem to think they're in charge of.
Put it this way - have you ever gone next door and blown up your neighbor's house because you didn't like them? No? Then you're NOT a terrorist!
See how that works?
Here's the definition of terrorism (not US law, but I'm guessing it's similar):
terrorism, the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective.
This doesn't appear to match that definition, this just seems to target one neighbor, so it's a hate crime.
I don't see any political ends here, nor do I see a broad climate of fear. It could be terrorism if they were part of a larger group that did this all at the same time, but I see no evidence of that.