I hate that the words “flash mobs” has two opposite uses.
Meaning 1) Group of people who organize an unexpected and well choreographed performance in a public place, often including song or dance and usually performed by a Church, School, or Youth Group. The theme always sends a positive message, and spectators are always touched in some way.
Meaning 2) Out of control thugs out to cause as much mayhem as they can get away with.
#2 is terrorism, plain and simple. The MSM will not label it that b/c it is almost exclusively blacks.
I hate the dedicated, disinformationist conflation of the
two kinds of gatherings also. I also think that the violent
mobs did not need the example of the latter to arise.
The journalistic misuse of “flash mob” also serves the
purpose of conditioning us to surrender our First Amendment
rights to peaceably assemble.
P.S. there might be something of a parallel with the
now seemingly entrenched pejorative use of “hacker” in
the computer/IT field.