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The real issue is that the media and politicians use the term ISIS instead of IS because it's better for SEO. Basically we now choose which foreigners to genocide based on the vagaries of whatever terms Google Panda currently recognizes as stopwords.

The real issue is that the media and politicians use the term ISIS instead of IS because it's better for SEO

Got a citation for that?

Even if what you're saying were true, it could be more charitably described as "not using a term that shares a spelling with one of the mostly commonly used words in the English language".

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