Political violence is when you do violence to the political people and the more political the more violence it is. Other violence is never political, especially when it’s done by political institutions. The more political the person doing the violence, the less political and violence it is.
-Shooting at a politician: Bad, political violence, domestic terrorism
-Unilaterally sending aid to a country that is aligned with yours so they can carry out a genocide: necessary evil, better than what your counterpart will do, shrewd
Political violence is when you do violence to the political people and the more political the more violence it is. Other violence is never political, especially when it’s done by political institutions. The more political the person doing the violence, the less political and violence it is.
But also,
Women/PoC/queer folks in media - political
Violence and coercion against the same - not political
Remember kids
-Shooting at a politician: Bad, political violence, domestic terrorism
-Unilaterally sending aid to a country that is aligned with yours so they can carry out a genocide: necessary evil, better than what your counterpart will do, shrewd