Timeline for Quoting a book whose title contains a racial slur
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| Jun 19, 2021 at 22:49 | comment | added | Flydog57 | It appears (from my very cursory research) that the concept of a terrorist activity entered the Canadian criminal code only in the aftermath of the September 2001 airplane hijackings/World Trade Center attacks. So, from a legal standpoint the FLQ was not a terrorist group. But, in the discussion of those laws, FLQ activities are nearly always mentioned. Bombing, political kidnappings, a political killing and a response that included the peacetime imposition of the War Measures Act makes it terrorism in my eyes. It should it the eyes of a reviewer as well | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 19:00 | comment | added | qc_throwaway_1 | @darijgrinberg, the downvote won't make it any less true. Quoting a book a certain way might result in a request to censor the tittle by a reviewer; an obvious slant will most likely end up in a rejection from any serious journal. | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 18:58 | comment | added | qc_throwaway_1 | @Flydog57 I am not arguing anything, the courts did. A lot of criminal acts were attributed to the organization. Most of it still remains allegations since almost none of them ended up in convictions or successful investigations. You and the OP are entitled to your opinions, but in OP's case this might immediately flag him and his paper as biased by a reviewer. Therefore I would advise a more neutral term. | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 13:54 | comment | added | Flydog57 | Are you arguing that the FLQ was not a homegrown Quebec terrorist organisation in the 1960s. That's a pretty good description, and you would probably find that many of the members of that organization would be comfortable with that adjective. The FLQ grew from a frustration with the slow pace of change during the Quiet Revolution and a desire to radically change the status quo (in those days, much of the power in the province was in the hands of English speaking folks). But, an organization that grew from Molotov cocktails and bombs to political kidnapping is, well, terrorist. | |
| Jun 17, 2021 at 9:16 | comment | added | darij grinberg | On the one hand, -1. On the other hand, this answer is such a hilarious illustration of how demands for self-censorship multiply when one gives in to one; in a sense this is the best answer to OP's question. | |
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| Jun 16, 2021 at 22:10 | history | answered | qc_throwaway_1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |