dear fellow dems, can we please stop rewarding armed gangs by calling them militias?

[msongs]

militias are entities sanctioned by and approved by states and the feds, not a collection of white supremacist that can afford semi automatic weapons and a gigantic truck. it's about messaging consistent across the boards. these people should never be called militias

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/15/2009448/-Let-s-Change-the-Narrative-on-Militia-Groups?utm_campaign=recent

[2naSalit]

1. They're terrorists.

[mr_lebowski]

2. Anti-Democracy Fascist Terrorists!!!

[2naSalit]

6. Yeah!

What you said.

[doc03]

7. +1

[David__77]

3. There's always that term US media generally apply to non-Western countries: "gunmen."

Of course, that's gendered.

[safeinOhio]

4. I've called them

radical unregulated militias.

[pwb]

5. They are the drug movers.

It is their living.