Yes, We Should Call Them Terrorists

Reflections on terminology and shifting the power of language

Tim Wise

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Photo Credit: Ruperto Miller, Flickr, public domain

Words matter, even, and perhaps especially in moments of crisis. At such times, words provide us with a conceptual framework to understand the things happening around us. Choose words that are inadequate to the moment, or fail to capture its gravity, and you run the risk of letting down your guard in…

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Tim Wise

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)