The difference is motive, not skin-color. Nightclub shooting? Definitely terrorism. I mean, the perpetrator took pains to let us all know it was for ISIS. Incel stuff… yeah. I mean there were manifestos. That’s a political goal, of a sort.
Las Vegas shooter, however? No political motive, hence not terrorism. Mass murder, yes, evil, yes, but not terrorism.
Again, this has nothing to do with skin color, ethnic origin or anything of the sort. McVeigh is definitely a terrorist, and I’d argue that the Beltway snipers aren’t. The difference isn’t just empty semantics either. You fight terrorism using different tools than you do spree killers or mass murderers or serial killers. All lethal, all evil, but with different etiologies.
