When is a terrorist not a terrorist?

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There has been a bit of a repeated fashion when it comes to the topic of a white terrorist and that is that there is no such thing. Why is that when any other person of any other color is immediately labeled as a terrorist when disruption and destruction is brought upon by their act but when it's a white man, immediately, people seem to find some kind of reason and illness behind his motives. Two cases that were immediately brought to my attention upon reading this article was in the case of the 2012 Aurora shooting during the Dark Knight Rises premiere where a young white man was said to be the Joker and shot at the audience with multiple firearms. While the debacle to settle what would be his sentence while in court, there was commotion going about that this young man wasn’t a terrorist but that he was a poor young boy that was just troubled and needed help to go about the right direction. Appalling, isn’t it not? There was another case just like this with at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, where a young white man opened fire in the church killing several African Americans, who were the main attendees of the church. And what happened to him? An former FBI agent called it off as him having no idea what he had done because he suffered from a mental illness because of his own upbringing and that he should be a victim as well and humanized over the real victims. It’s ridiculous but that’s the power of being a white terrorist. You simply aren’t one.