This is maybe an unpopular opinion, but the “white people can be terrorists, too!” line, while well-meaning or whatever, isn’t....particularly good.

“White people can be terrorists, too!” isn’t a useful take in a state whose original sins are genocide followed by chattel slavery but created “terrorist” as a designation specifically to criminalize non-white people.

I think that expanding that designation to include white supremacist violence without troubling its foundation legitimizes a racist order where “brown terrorist” is normative and distances acts of “white terrorism” from the racial terror that founded this state.