The alt right, in the few years of its existence, has less of a track record of violence than every other segment of the white supremacist movement.
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And mind you, I am coming at this from the perspective of the person who wrote the document warning Charlottesville officials of the violence to come, as someone who correctly predicted 2 months before that Vanguard would commit a terrorist attack at UTR...
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as someone who was given their planning chatlogs and as someone who survived attacks at three events in Charlottesville this summer. I have seen intimately their violence.
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The only thing I "dismissed" was the notion that Cernovich and Prosobiec were terrorists. I did not suggest that the alt right was not dangerous or even that adherents had not engaged in acts that were arguably terrorism--or might engage in more in the future.
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I read this tweet as logically connected with its prior. Perhaps my misreading.https://twitter.com/egavactip/status/932346278666735616 …
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That was just a response to someone calling alt right a "weaker equivalent of Al Qaeda." (I earlier misremembered it as ISIS) That is what my tweet objected to, because, far from being Al Qaeda, the alt right so far is not even the most violent segment of the ws movement.
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Perhaps the era of rallies is over, but as far as I am concerned they all organized together in Charlottesville, and so the violence that happened belongs to all of them. So setting our window to the past year, I see no distinction.
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They will all soon be indicted. They'll all go down together.
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