Hey, I'm Amadullah Yuckper, and this is See Something Say Something.

We're finally going to talk about something that I really try to avoid talking about on this show, which is terrorism.

Because obviously everyone loves to talk about Muslims and terrorism.

But specifically, we're going to be talking about the double standard in the media cycle around white perpetrators of violence and why I'm a little bit sick of it. So at this point, you're used to the cycle of public violence. Nothing at all, nothing at all.

So at this point, you're used to the cycle of public violence.

When a shooting happens or a bombing goes off, we pray and hope that the perpetrator isn't Muslim.

And if they are, we prepare for the terrible takes about Islamism and extremism and inevitable crackdowns in our community.

But when the perpetrator is white, the person is described as a troubled, nice guy who everyone never imagined could do anything like this.

Most recently, the example of this was the Austin bomber, Mark Anthony Condit, who

literally planted bombs around the city of Austin, killed two and injured five,

and then blew himself up. There was also Nicholas Cruz, the Parkland shooter, who was

described as bullied, and there was a lot of sympathy in the coverage towards him. The Austin

Police Chief did eventually say that he thought Conduit was a domestic terrorist. Cruz

still hasn't been described as such, and their connection to white nationalist

groups is still kind of tenuous.

And so when this happens, this interesting cycle begins where people post about this double

standard, and it gets thousands of retweets.

You know what would happen if this was a Muslim.

And there's three levels here where the media has one definition of what a terrorist is,

and the government has another, which is different from what well-meaning liberals on Facebook are talking about.

And they're sort of all intermingling with, in this word, terrorist.

So my question is, is this word even useful?

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