†according to US authorities & traditional media

  • Lime Buzz@beehaw.orgEnglish
    91·
    10 hours ago

    Perhaps it’s just not a useful term any more and we should move past it and/or explain better what we mean.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      8 hours ago

      I mean, it’s been expanded to mean, amongst many other things “male aged 12 or older killed by American military in Middle Eastern country” over two DECADES ago!

      The age of the billionaire-owned media, politicians, cops, and politician-cops using that word responsibly died before most of Gen Z were even born.

      • Lime Buzz@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        Yeah.

        I really roll my eyes whenever I hear it said now. It is meaningless and just a buzzword meant to make people clutch at their pearls or cheer when some poor innocent person gets killed, instead of fixing the system so that nobody wants to do such acts in the first place.