# Russian school attack-why do the reporters refuse to call it terrorism? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 3, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-school-attack-why-do-the-reporters-refuse-to-call-it-terrorism/263001 "2004-09-03T19:24:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-school-attack-why-do-the-reporters-refuse-to-call-it-terrorism/263001/161 "2004-09-09T22:18:12Z")
> [@gum](#): > > You call that ‘style’ the thing you have? We call that something else here. > > No, sweetie. > > No matter what you’ll think next of, in your love-lost thoughts: No excuses for _deliberately_ slaughtering babies, _deliberately_ shooting children in the back. > > Sorry. > No can do. > No condoning, no ‘but’, no excuses. > > Good luck on the ex-sweetheart. Ummmm, he hasn’t been my “sweetie” in more than 10 years, and I’m over him, but I did learn a lot from him. As for you: well, I’m definitely not your sweetie, and I sure hope I don’t pick up your attitude toward a people who are in need of help, not unwarranted accusations of terrorist behavior. In case you haven’t gathered by now from the repeated attempts of myself and others to elucidate our opinions, if one has a humane cell in one’s body, one can manage to differentiate between individuals who perform acts of terrorism and the ethnic group they belong to, and between criminal prosecution and ethnic cleansing. Not to mention the difference between an excuse, an explanation, and a justification. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-school-attack-why-do-the-reporters-refuse-to-call-it-terrorism/263001.md?page=8)