Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/White terrorism

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The result was redirect to Right-wing terrorism. If anybody wants to merge some content, be my guest, but there's probably not much. I also picked Right-wing terrorism as a target based on the discussion, but this close in no way prevents this from being boldly changed or taken to RfD. (non-admin closure) Kharkiv07 (T) 18:24, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

White terrorism

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The term lacks notability. The article used in the lead to establish notability does not use the term and is an opinion piece. Nor is there evidence that terrorist acts committed by white people, particularly acts that are not motivated by racism are typically called "white terrorism." Furthermore most of the first hits on Google books return "Jonathan R. White, Terrorism:An Introduction. TFD (talk) 00:57, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

• Delete/Redirect We already have Right-wing terrorism. --Mr. Magoo (talk) 01:40, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
• Delete/Redirect - Aside from being used by Hillary Clinton a few times, the term does seem to lack notability.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  02:07, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
• Delete - Term lacks notability and article is written with a will a clear POV. Meatsgains (talk) 04:13, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
• Redirect to Right-wing terrorism, White pride, White nationalism, or something similar. As it stands, this article is blatantly POV. GAB^Hello! 15:00, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
• Redirect - to any of the suggestions above. WP:NAD Wikipedia is not a dictionary, phrasebook, or a slang, jargon or usage guide. — Maile (talk) 23:44, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
• Comment - I only really made this an article even though the concept of describing terrorism by demographic of person, rather than ideology of person, drives me up the wall. It's because it seemed to be a buzzword progressives like to use, such as this and this. IMO, the whole thing seems to be all about the idea of "equivalence". Discuss-Dubious (t/c) 03:31, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
• Keep or Merge - There are plenty of sources and various meanings.

• "Although federal policy and actions (Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871) effectively eliminated the most organized forms of white terrorism in the 1870s, they did little to assist the formerly enslaved in gaining economic security". http://www.hatboro-horsham.org/cms/lib2/PA01000027/Centricity/Domain/374/Jim_Crow_Era-Lynching.pdf
• "and countenenced white terrorism of blacks" http://www.jstor.org/stable/30150329?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
• "DeLillo omits any sustained reference to late twentieth-century "white" terrorism, for example of white American militias or the IRA. " http://www.jstor.org/stable/20831902?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
• "Written during Reconstruction and directed, importantly, toward an African-American audience, this novel, though more explicit in its denunciation of white terrorism, anticipates Iola Leroy". http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/yale_journal_of_criticism/v010/10.2foreman.html
• plus all the other sources listed on the talk page. Read through them, plenty of references.
• copied and pasted below for your pleasure:
• http://cf.linnbenton.edu/artcom/social_science/clarkd/upload/Top%20Ten%20Differences%20Between%20White%20Terrorists%20and%20Others.pdf
• http://www.jstor.org/stable/4232730?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
• http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/alabcrcl4&div=5&id=&page=
• http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/00483489710157760
• Forty Acres and a Mule in the 21st Century - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6237.2008.00555.x/pdf
• http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/11/hillary-white-terrorism-and-police-violence-are-just-as-big-a-threat-as-isis-video/
• http://time.com/3934980/right-wing-extremists-white-terrorism-islamist-jihadi-dangerous/
• http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/11/30/3725562/you-are-more-than-7-times-as-likely-to-be-killed-by-a-right-wing-extemist-than-by-muslim-terrorists/
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/18/call-the-charleston-church-shooting-what-it-is-terrorism/
• http://www.thenation.com/article/how-to-understand-white-male-terrorism/

--Potguru (talk) 16:05, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

It has different meanings because it is not a topic, just a noun modified by an adjective. So there are white criminals, white senators, white businessmen, white bus drivers, etc. (Ralph Kramden was a white bus driver.) It does not mean these are all actual topics. TFD (talk) 16:25, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

How about a research paper called "Freedmen with Firearms: White Terrorism and Black Disarmament During Reconstruction" whose abstract reads: "New laws, mob actions and acts of organized white terrorism were used to subjugate free citizens and return them to their former stations of labor.". Cited only two times, but worth consideration, perhaps? http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gcjcwe/vol4/iss1/4/ --Potguru (talk) 21:58, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Maybe this should all be merged to this article? White_Terror_(Taiwan)? --Potguru (talk) 22:34, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Have you even read these two articles...? They have nothing in common. More than that I agree with TFD, this is not a topic, but rather a descriptive term with many disparate uses and deffinitions.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  23:19, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

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