# Calling someone a ‘Terrorist’
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-someone-a-terrorist/1005578
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 11, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-someone-a-terrorist/1005578 "2024-08-11T21:08:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2024, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-someone-a-terrorist/1005578/61 "2024-08-12T14:34:47Z")
> [@Mops](#):
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> I wonder why the term ‘terrorist’ seems to have been taken as a meaningless insult, and depending on the other party very possibly an ethnic slur, by all responses in this thread.
I don’t think it was by me.
> [@thorny\_locust](#):
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> It’s true that it’s a worse insult if/when it’s also a bigoted insult; but calling someone a terrorist seems to me to be insulting no matter who they are. Even those who are actually terrorists generally are called by their supporters freedom fighters or the legitimate resistance or whatever.
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### Author:  [@Krav\_Manga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krav_Manga)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-someone-a-terrorist/1005578/62 "2024-08-13T02:36:23Z")
Pursuant to the Football Queensland (and I presume that the other states have similar rules) using “offensive, insulting, abusive or intimidating language and/or gestures” is a red card offence (R6).
Use of “discriminatory, homophobic, racist, religous, ethnic or sexist language and/or gestures” (for a first offence) carries a minmum sentence of 6 fixtures.
> **[2024-FQ-Disciplinary-Regulations.pdf](https://footballqueensland.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-FQ-Disciplinary-Regulations.pdf)**
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-someone-a-terrorist/1005578/63 "2024-08-13T02:41:19Z")
> homophobic, … or sexist language
So, “mewling quim” is right out then?
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-someone-a-terrorist/1005578/64 "2024-08-13T02:42:17Z")
And i just heard on the radio that a professional us athlete was suspended for using a homophobic slur. A word that might not be as toxic as some of the slurs the OP mentioned as common in Australia. (Like mewling quim)
> **[Red Sox OF Duran suspended for anti-gay slur](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/40836911/red-sox-star-jarren-duran-suspended-2-games-anti-gay-slur)**
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> The Red Sox and MLB have suspended outfielder Jarren Duran for two games after he uttered an anti-gay slur at a fan.
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### Author:  [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2024, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-someone-a-terrorist/1005578/65 "2024-08-13T03:01:34Z")
Shameful. I’d be alright with a longer suspension.
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### Author:  [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2024, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-someone-a-terrorist/1005578/66 "2024-08-14T04:27:03Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#):
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> I’d be alright with a longer suspension.
And a much bigger fine while we’re at it.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2024, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-someone-a-terrorist/1005578/67 "2024-08-14T05:11:28Z")
TY Cobb beat up an handicapped fan up. Brutally.
I don’t remember what happened to him. But obviously he continued to play ball many years.
I wonder what would happen him now?
(I would hope criminal charges and jail time)
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### Author:  [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2024, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-someone-a-terrorist/1005578/68 "2024-08-14T05:49:56Z")
A fine ball player, but a totally racist, hateful, asshole.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2024, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-someone-a-terrorist/1005578/69 "2024-08-14T10:18:24Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> TY Cobb beat up an handicapped fan up. Brutally.
Absolutely false.
> [@Sylvanz](#):
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> A fine ball player, but a totally racist, hateful, asshole.
Ty Cobb was slandered by sportswriter Al Stump, who hounded him. That slander was repeated so often it’s become modern myth. I recommend this article:
> **[Who Was Ty Cobb? The History We Know That’s Wrong](https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/who-was-ty-cobb-the-history-we-know-thats-wrong/)**
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> Ty Cobb was one of the greatest baseball players of all time and king of the so-called Deadball Era. But for all that, most Americans think of him first as an awful person.
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