AP Stylebook Discourages Use of ‘Riot,’ Expands Definition of ‘Protest’ to Include ‘Violence’

National Review ^ | October 1, 2020 | Brittany Bernstein

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““Focusing on rioting and property destruction rather than underlying grievance has been used in the past to stigmatize broad swaths of people protesting against lynching, police brutality or for racial justice, going back to the urban uprisings of the 1960s,” it added.”

And what about past allegations of lynchings? Will lynchings be restyled as “largely peaceful protests?”

It could happen: today killings young children is defined as “women's health care.”