The word terrorism became inflated as the war it names commercialized
Evidence
As the war on terrorism became deeply politicized and commercialized the term terrorism is is being used indiscriminately for all types of acts of violence. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2431
Categorization
- DEFINE: Scraps a definition: ‘terrorism’ lost precise meaning once politicized and commercialized.
- XREF: connects to: Corporate rhetoric flips the slow poisoning of the poor into an act of terror — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 162