Comment by ryanmercer
7 years ago
>Unless they're bombing buildings the word you're looking for is extortion, not terrorism.
You don't have to blow up a building to be a terrorist. You don't have to carry out an act of violence, or even suggest one, to be a terrorist. Organizing a walk out is intimidation,
ter·ror·ism /ˈterəˌrizəm/ noun the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
You are misreading the “violence and intimidation” in that definition as if it were “violence or intimidation”; it actually contradicts rather than supports your claim.
I cited one defintion, here's one for you from Merriam-Webster
"terorrism: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion"
If you go look at press coverage right now, it looks like there's a minimum of dozens of employees at each of many worldwide locations that have walked out. If you're telling me a company doesn't feel that, doesn't feel a hundred or possibly thousands of employees refusing to work even 1 shift, because they are upset about how something was handled, that that isn't 'the systematic use of terror' to coerce Google to change policy then...
You should say what you mean. Your statement can be widened to "Protest is terrorism" and if that's what you really think then you are prioritizing business over human rights. I fundamentally disagree with this logic because if you or I were in a situation we were wronged we would expect others to look out for our rights. Democracy works because people cooperate, and part of cooperation is protest.
It's over the top to invoke 'terrorism' in this context and at this point you're basically trolling. Please stop, and please don't take HN threads on flamewar tangents.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>You don't have to carry out an act of violence, or even suggest one, to be a terrorist
>ter·ror·ism /ˈterəˌrizəm/ noun the unlawful use of violence and intimidation
u srs bruh?