FFS, stop calling Jan 6 a "riot."

[KentuckyStiffRipple]

This really, really pisses me off. Jan 6 was a riot like 9/11 was some planes crashing. It's a completely insufficient descriptor and it's fundamentally misleading as to the meaning of Jan 6.

I knew our media would do this, out of LAZINESS, from the very beginning.

Because, of all things, it comes down to spelling and syllables. They quite literally don't want to put in the work of writing the word "insurrection" out. Man, it's like three times as many letters! And who knows how many s's and r's are in it!

It's just that ridiculous.

Calling Jan 6 a mere "riot" is a very serious failure of our media and one of the many ways Republicans obscure or hide truth in our society.

[bottomofthehill]

1. Metropolitan Police called it a riot to bring all resources to bear from the city.

It was much more than that to me, but it was a legally declared riot. Of that the Republicans can not argue. Who gets to decide if it was an insurrection, it meets all the points to be an insurrection to me. It was clearly a violent uprising against the government, but who gets to declare it. Seems to be like pornography, in the eyes of the beholder. To me it clearly fits the definition.

[KentuckyStiffRipple]

4. The insurrectionists themselves defined it

when they declared their intention to overturn a legitimate democratic election and attempted to do it by force by violently invading our national capitol when votes were being counted. Those are the facts of what happened and 100% an (attempted) insurrection.

[Progressive Jones]

2. Jan. 6th was a terror attack carried out by domestic enemies of the US

It was not a riot.
It was not a peaceful demonstration.
It was carried out by low class,, anti American thugs.
It was instigated and organized by people within the Federal government, the US military, and law enforcement.
They'll all be found, and they'll all pay for what they did. They're all traitors.

[doc03]

3. It was a planned insurrection or an attempted coup

by any definition.

[onecaliberal]

5. It was an attempted coup by the losing party in the 2020 election.

[KentuckyStiffRipple]

6. They used the same tactic with the same word in Tulsa

What by all rights should have been called a "massacre" from the very beginning was whitewashed and spun into oblivion through the use of this word "riot."

Republicans want everything to be called a "riot." It is used to reinforce their desired "both sides" false equivalency with regard to liberal protests and hides their anti-democratic intentions behind the word's sense of aimless unruliness. We need to just throw that word out of our political discourse.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

7. That drives me crazy too

It was a violent traitorous insurection.

[uponit7771]

8. K&R