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One tweet sums up the big problem with how we talk about terrorism 

If a terrorist attack took place right here in the U.S., why isn’t it a national story?

Terrorism may be defined as “the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes,” but if you asked most people, the term conjures one image: brown people with beards and bombs. Nothing has made that profoundly racist misunderstanding clearer than the news coverage of two violent attacks that happened within roughly 24 hours.