What If Trump Talked about White Terrorists Like This?
This remix contains violence and derogatory language. Viewer discretion is advised.
What If Trump Talked about White Terrorists Like This?
A Political Remix Video by Diran Lyons
Beta Testing: Z Slavin, S Sanchez, L Spoors, M Potter, J Divelbiss
Final Tweet Text: Zoe Slavin
This video repurposes 91 news sources to scrutinize Donald Trump's rhetoric on terrorism. After extracting statements Trump originally used to describe non-white terrorists, I seamlessly applied them to news footage of white individuals who committed acts of terror.* The result is a portrayal of Trump consistent with his repeated view that designating individuals as terrorists is of paramount import (Recall his relentless insistence that Obama use the terminology "radical Islamic terrorism," yet Trump at every opportunity has failed to apply the label to white mass murderers operating with political motivation). With all his hatred for political correctness, what does it signify that Trump reserves his vitriol only for non-whites and refuses to talk about white terrorists in the manner constructed by this remix?
Given the pro-peace work I have created over the past decade, it should go without saying that this video neither celebrates nor advocates violence. Rather, it uses Trump's rhetoric to reveal an ostensible white privilege operating within it. A brief articulation of this problem by CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen considers how the United States government would have labeled the Dylann Roof attack if Roof had been a Muslim: https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/18/opinio....
*Note: The individuals used 5 different types of weaponry. In order of appearance: Mark Anthony Conditt, bombs. James Harris Jackson, sword. James Alex Fields, car. Stephen Paddock, 'bump-stock' semi-automatic firearms. Dylann Roof, handgun.
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