…in that colonizers use the term to justify their continued brutalization of people fighting back against oppression. It was probably on where I first heard the argument that it’s a fairly useless term mainly used to describe any militant enemies of the west, but it occurs to me now and seems so obvious that the term “terrorist” is just a direct replacement for “savage”.
you ever notice that they never call a white male mass shooter a terrorist? instead he is usually a “gunman” or a “shooter”