Say it with me: Luigi Mangione is not a terrorist
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Luigi Mangione is *not a terrorist.*
>The FBI said an Islamic State group flag was found in the vehicle and they are investigating the attack as an “act of terrorism”
Why is everyone running with this “they’re not calling him a terrorist” thing
I live in NOLA. The FBI’s “correction” of the mayor’s labeling of the event as a terrorist attack was done over eight hours ago as they were assessing the situation. They have since released a statement saying they are investigating it as a terrorist attack and it is now being called such in media who are deferring to information released by law enforcement. I know it was a cute “fuck the system” talking point, but it’s no longer relevant or accurate.
Delete X.
Problem solved. Don’t know why Black people even still use it when it’s basically an alt right platform at this point.
Confuse and redefine. It’s how they work the narrative
They are investigating this as an act of terrorism
Why do people care more about their biases be confirmed instead of the actual facts?
https://youtu.be/SzIDRF_qlIA?si=omEacQkRtkxhQ43D
I’m not trying to defend the FBI or anything but this tweet literally isn’t true in the slightest.
[“The FBI said an Islamic State group flag was found in the vehicle and they are investigating the attack as an ‘act of terrorism’”](https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn4x88455qpt)
Is it really that hard to include authoritative sources of information in Xitter posts? Why should anyone believe this person, assuming it’s even a person?
Terrorism isn’t a numbers game. Killing a civilian to make a political statement is terrorism. Just because we don’t like the person who was killed doesn’t really make that not true. Luigi’s killing is a little more morally ambiguous than the driver in NO, but it would make sense that both would be considered terrorism based on what we know about both so far.
A lot of yall seem to not get that if Luigi is justified in doing what he did that opens the door for a lot of people to start killing whoever they like based on whatever moral failing they can come up with. That’s a bad look in the long run. The health care system is messed up and in drastic need of fixing. Luigi Mangione killing a CEO of an insurance company is wrong and shouldn’t really be celebrated. Both things can be true at once.
I mean he did technically carry out political violence no? We gotta stop denying reality because it suits our narratives.
Luigi Mangione (assuming he’s guilty and did it for the reason everyone thinks he did) pretty clearly is a terrorist, though? Terrorism is the use of violence against civilians to try to scare people into inciting political or social change. That’s exactly what he did. Everyone saying that health insurance execs should be scared, or that this is what happens when we don’t have universal healthcare, is agreeing that he is a terrorist.
Just because you support his cause doesn’t mean he isn’t a terrorist.
“You take tower 1”
Mods yall gotta lock this shit down, these comments are already outta pocket
UPDATE: the FBI has found the driver representing an ISIS flag and the FBI is treating this as a terrorist attack.
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Source: CNN
If Luigi isn’t a terrorist then what has reddit been celebrating for 4 weeks?
she’s emphasizing the wrong thing. the issue is he was a CEO, not that he was white.
The New Orleans k!ller literally had an isis flag on his truck… chile smh
After the way they treated us post-Katrina I can’t be shocked they acting like it’s not terrorism if it happened it my city. Shit sad
Luigi did what we meant when we say “eat the rich”
Terrorism isn’t what you do but why you do it. It’s a crime of the motivation behind another crime. If Jabbar had one two many, hated the world and just wanted to cause damage then it’s not terrorism.
Now, the fact he had the flag associated with ISIS in his truck suggests there may be a motive of political fear which would make it terrorism but again, Terrorism is about the motive and intended effect not about the crime itself.
(Slight note for certain jurisdicitions that have an “or the effect” clause where intent is broadened to include reasonable expectations)
It has little to nothing to do with the “1” man being white and everything to do with him being rich and part of the corporate elite
Sorry but at this point it’s intentional. Let them fight
Didn’t he have an ISIS flag, too?
I read it somewhere before that some people in law enforcement don’t like that the term terrorism is applied to both people in larger organized groups and lone wolf self radicalized types.
reddit also believes Hamas aren’t a terrorists
wrong color.
Wild af
Caught covid and was prescribed antiviral medicine…..it costs 400 dollars AFTER insurance. I went with some over the counter dayquil instead. Luigi is a hero.
I obviously understand the situation here and I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but, I think the point is that they deemed that Luigi killed with the intent to cause fear, and from what I’ve seen so far, this dude was just crazy and decided to kill a bunch of people. He was a veteran with mental issues or something.
Motive I’m assuming is what defines it, Luigi had a motive, maybe this guy didn’t. That’s all I can assume is the distinction. Basically, not every mass murderer is a terrorist. Sometimes they’re just psychos.
I’ve heard rumors he has an isis flag on his car, if that’s the case and the intent was to do this as a means of supporting ISIS then obviously it’s terrorism. If he’s just some crazy dude killing people then he’s just another one of the exhaustingly long list of mass murderers in America recently.
Terrorism: “the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.”
-oxford dictionary
Sounds like someone jumped the gun using the term terrorism, they were told to back off till it was actually confirmed, then it later got confirmed. Words mean things and I’m seeing a lot of people here gloss over the fact that the difference between what someone like Darrell Brooks did and the attacker in this case is an attack done in pursuit of political aim. Both incidents where someone drove a car into a crowd. One case was someone being stupid, and the other had a particular motive. In the court of law, that’s a major distinction
The way the message is formed hurts the cause, because it is not about the race, because if it was there were numerous other white men killed in other accidents without much attention, but because one of the “Elite” , “Privileged” class citizen was killed.