WE KNOW. It's tempting to call these #WhiteSupremacists "terrorists" when white supremacist violence terrorizes our communities every day around the world. But here's why we avoid it – and why it actually harms our communities more than it helps

1) Anti-terrorism frameworks & methods are historically based in anti-blackness & #Islamophobia Counter-terrorism programs like CVE (Countering Violent Extremism) are designed to profile Muslims, Black, + brown people as inherently suspect and uniquely prone to radicalization.

2) Calling white supremacists “terrorists” fuels the islamophobic & racist war on terror apparatus. The war on terror disproportionately harms #Muslim, #BlackLives, & brown communities in the U.S. & abroad, & thrives on surveillance, criminalization, incarceration, & deportation.

3) Focusing on individualized white supremacist violence undermines the reality that white supremacy goes far beyond the individual – it's built into our system Calling white supremacists #DomesticTerrorists reduces the issue and violence of white supremacy to "bad apples.”

By labeling white supremacists terrorists, we are empowering the state to redirect more money & resources to policing and surveillance. Policing & surveillance largely criminalize muslim, black, & brown communities.

No more criminalization. We want #abolition.