Some people complain that whites who commit shooting at work, schools, and colleges are referred to as mentally while people of color are called terrorists. Why?
I don't suppose it has anything to do with skin color or lack thereof but the motivation behind the crime. If a person commits a mass shooting or bombing like was just happened in Oregon or what happened in that movie theater or the college in Virginia and the reason for committing that crime is revenge or anger or just to see what it was like the shooter or perpetrator is classified as mentally ill. But if the person who di such acts commits those acts does so in support of a movement or greater ideology espoused by an organization or country then that person who be a terrorists.
The two men who did the Boston Marathon bombing did so not because marathon runners bullied them but because they made easy targets and the act was in support of their Muslim beliefs. They felt they were part of a greater cause.
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