Talk:January 6 United States Capitol attack
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What is a "method"?
In the infobox, some "methods" are listed that were employed in the January 6 attack. It is a tragic property of this infobox design that it's never really clear what's supposed to be included here due to methods and goals often times being one and the same, but this specific instance also suffers from the infobox seemingly not being aware of the article's scope.
What is the article is about? The January 6 US Capitol attack. It is not about the broader efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Here is a list of entries that I take issue with then:
- "Far-right terrorism". What exactly is this supposed to denote? It could be argued that the January 6 attack was an act of terrorism, yes. But to then say that it employed terrorism in order to accomplish terrorism is absurd. Acts of terrorism employ violence. That is what should be listed, and it already is. "Terrorism" is vague and question-begging in this context.
- "Political subversion: propaganda (big lie)". Propaganda is hardly a method for attacking a building. The most that could be argued is that propaganda was used in order to recruit the people who participated. But this is far too removed, and more fitting of the broader efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
- "Conspiracy". So what if the attack was planned? This isn't a method for the attack, but for organising the attack. We don't list "conspiracy" as a method for every single mass movement just because some of the participants conspired, and we shouldn't.
- "Incitement of insurrection". Beyond having more to do with the events preceding the attack than the attack itself, this is also uncited.
- "Attacking a legislature". This is obvious. The infobox already calls it an "attack", and it was directed against the legislature. The reader should not have it spelled out for them that and those engaging in an attack on a legislature are "attacking a legislature".
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