To clarify, white people are actually slightly underrepresented in terrorism per capita; they simply constitute a significant majority of the population and therefore do most of the terrorism. Therefore, while this tweet is technically correct, it should not be taken to mean that white individuals are more likely to be terrorists—it’s an ironic reflection on the skewed, racially motivated reality presented to us by media and politicians.
Source:
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-releases-lone-offender-terrorism-report-111319
https://www.statista.com/chart/19968/the-race-ethnicity-of-lone-offender-terrorists/
https://www.theroot.com/are-white-men-americas-biggest-terror-threat-we-checke-1830175112
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/14/fbi-and-dhs-warned-of-growing-threat-from-white-supremacists-months-ago/
Gruesomely mass murdering civilians using bombs to get the rest to comply with your will is only “Terrorism” if the bombs were placed on the ground and then exploded, not when they were dropped from the air.
Hence the smaller per-capita representation of white people in the count of terrorists.
HAHAHA this is such good analysis.
A similar statistical anomaly is that more men are sexually assaulted in the armed forces than women, but it’s just because there are much more of them overall. An individual woman is still more likely to be assaulted than an individual man.
