I'm about halfway through this @NYTmag story, and hoo boy do I have thoughts.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/magazine/FBI-charlottesville-white-nationalism-far-right.html …
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What can be done? A positive first step would be for journalists and policymakers to stop framing acts like this as "inexplicable." "Inexplicable" is a useless analytic, especially when there's a very compelling and deeply evidence-based explanation.pic.twitter.com/Km79aaiwB8
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I can't tell if NYT missed this because they think (at some institutional level, and despite strong evidence to the contrary) that all institutions essentially "play fair," or if there's something else going on here.
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I think that people who regularly work with law enforcement -- and I'm including reporters in that group -- are far less likely to make such a direct institutional critique.
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I mean thank fck this exact same thing didn't happen in Weimar Germany, amirite? Ooooh it would be so scary if this exact same thing had happened in Weimar Germany, but whew we definitely dodged that bullet.
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i think about orwell's observation that the spanish police would invariably join up or collaborate with franco's forces as they approached republican-held areas a lot
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Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses -rage against the machine
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One domestic terrorism expert who conducts hate-crimes training for journalists, was baffled by the pushback she received from NYT who didn’t seem to view white-supremacist groups as a democracy-sabotage problem. They'd continue interviewing trumpers & say:pic.twitter.com/3SPMq0uW4M
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