L.D. Burnett
Jan 31, 2021

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As I point out to my students every semester, murder is already illegal, but there are profoundly good reasons for passing an anti-lynching law at the federal level. Before dismissing the need for new laws (and these are straw-man laws in your piece, since you've discussed no actual proposed laws / provisions), it would be useful to consider whether defining the set or combination of actions taken by these domestic terrorists under a new rubric would be more useful in detecting/preventing domestic terrorism.

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L.D. Burnett
L.D. Burnett

Written by L.D. Burnett

Writer and historian from / in California’s Great Central Valley. Book, “Western Civilization: The History of an American Idea,” under contract w/ UNC Press.

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