Singer Nezza Getting Death Threats After Singing Anthem in Spanish at Dodgers Game
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Latin American pop singer Vanessa Hernández is getting death threats for singing the National Anthem in Spanish at a baseball game ... but, she's still proud she did it, and she says big-time celebs have her back.
  • Wren@lemmy.worldM
    712·
    3 days ago

    If you threaten to kill someone, you are using terror to manipulate them into being fearful.

    A death threat because you don’t like someone is still an intention to instill fear in someone. So yes. You’d be a terrorist.

    By definition: terrorism is the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence to instill fear, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological goals. Killing someone out of hate is an ideological goal.

    • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 days ago

      Sorry, that just doesn’t follow the actual definition of terrorism. Remove the comma, and “often” and we’re real closer.

      Literally the first result on Google From wiki:

      Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.[1]

      Not every murderer is a terrorist.

        • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world
          61·
          1 day ago

          Dumb. You don’t get to change definitions of words because you don’t grasp the concept. Sorry. You are just flat wrong here.

          • Wren@lemmy.worldM
            12·
            23 hours ago

            I’m not changing the definition. I’m simply explaining my interpretation of it. Threats of murder are a form of terrorism.

            If a person that plays guitar is called a guitarist, then a person that terrorizes others is a terrorist.

            It’s pretty simple.

    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
      92·
      3 days ago

      Killing someone out of hate is an ideological goal.

      In most cases, no. All hate is not ideological hate, and most killings are not ideological either. Most of the violence we see in the world is due to people’s personal relationships with each other, or are the result of some spontaneous fight.

      The problem with what you’re doing here is you’re diluting the meaning of the word “terrorism”. You wrote out the definition, but you don’t seem to understand it. The key element is that terrorism is not just instilling fear, but using that fear to obtain political or ideological goals.

      If instilling fear is sufficient to make someone a terrorist, any violent criminal or anyone threatening others becomes a terrorist, and the word loses its meaning.