2/ The whole "Obama/HRC won't call it radical Islam" meme on the right is considered excruciatingly dumb magical thinking by most liberals.
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3/ And sometimes it does reflect a foolish Green Lanternish view of foreign policy. But it also flows from a sense ...
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4/ ... that Western policymakers see themselves charged with manipulating the rubes to keep a lid on Islamophobia, even if that requires ...
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5/ ... basically dissembling about motives behind attacks. Which kind of seems to have happened (clumsily) in the case of Mateen/Orlando.
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6/ And also seems to happen, in various ways, in Europe; authorities + media often seem to feel a duty to downplay/minimize migrant crimes.
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Isn't the stated rationale for eschewing the phrase more plausible than an effort to trick people about what faith ISIS claims?
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I don't think presidential wariness of the phrase reflects trickery. But I it's a problem when that wariness gets bound up ...
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... in a broader effort to downplay fairly obvious ideological motives in terror.
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I think there is genuine ambiguity in mentally ill lone wolves radicalized online
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I oppose using Global War on Terror techniques to fight lone wolf racist killers, so yes.
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Right, but there was a huge *ideological* response to Roof in public rhetoric.
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Ideological in the sense that seemingly only liberals care about denouncing racism.
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