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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Feb 2018

      Who will be the first with the "We shouldn't tar all white nationalists as violent" hot take?

      26 replies 34 retweets 70 likes
    2. Alex Yablon‏Verified account @AlexYablon 15 Feb 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      I will readily argue that associations with white nationalists don’t explain very much about why this guy shot up a schoolhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/09/14/what-do-most-mass-shooters-have-in-common-hint-it-isnt-politics-video-games-or-religion/ …

      4 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Feb 2018
      Replying to @AlexYablon

      It'd say there's a dynamic where troubled, violence prone individuals are attracted to extremist ideologies that give structure & legitimacy to their worst tendencies.

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    4. Alex Yablon‏Verified account @AlexYablon 15 Feb 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      Yeah, but that dynamic would be a better way for understanding events like Charlottesville, rather than a teen with a history of dating abuse, making threats, etc committing an atrocity on his own. that’s the relevant part here.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Feb 2018
      Replying to @AlexYablon

      I'd don't think there's ever just one factor and it's too early to say which was most salient. Do agree that the pattern of domestic violence & asocial behavior looks at first glance to be dominant.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    6. Alex Yablon‏Verified account @AlexYablon 15 Feb 2018
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      I think it’s certainly an ideology that deliberately attracts people already inclined to act violently, but for individuals who commit massacres, the violent behavior is an end in and of itself. Ideologies of all kinds can be fig leaves for expressing uncontrollable rage.

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    7. inverted vibe curve: burgertown must be defended‏Verified account @PatBlanchfield 15 Feb 2018
      Replying to @AlexYablon @HeerJeet

      difficult to talk about but one thing I think we need to do is not let the ties to explicit, extremist white supremacy in this specific mass shooting exist in 0/sum tradeoff with awareness of how mass shootings in general exist in relation to implicit, normalized, structural WS

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    8. Alex Yablon‏Verified account @AlexYablon 15 Feb 2018
      Replying to @PatBlanchfield @HeerJeet

      Yes, the fact that playing with guns and talking about killing is central to this group’s praxis made it a natural fit for a mass shooter.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Alex Yablon‏Verified account @AlexYablon 15 Feb 2018
      Replying to @AlexYablon @PatBlanchfield @HeerJeet

      But by the same token, I don’t think Richard Spencer is going to personally take up arms.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Feb 2018
      Replying to @AlexYablon @PatBlanchfield

      Not uncommon for an extremist movement to have a division of labor between theorists & lone wolf killers. See ISIS.

      1:14 PM - 15 Feb 2018
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