Hello,
I call the murdering of disabled people as eugenic terrorism moving away from the notion that the perpetrator could be absolved for the following reasons: was misguided, experienced burn out from caring, performing an act of euthanasia, or was crazy [a
sanist argument].
I think it is equally important to use the term ‘terrorism’ for mass murders like this. What does this create other than terror among the people targeted by such killers? If we simply allow the officials in charge of Western democracies to decide what counts as “terror” and what does not, we have lost control of our politics. (As if ...)
Ron
Ron Amundson, Dept. of Philosophy (Emeritus)
University of Hawaii at Hilo
Hilo, HI 96720
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Personally, I think it is important to use the term "hate crime" when appropriate as it clearly signals how acts of violence are linked to hatred of particular social groups.
Deborah Chinn
King's College London
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