Wow, this is how the GOP is framing the crisis with domestic-terrorist militia groups in Oregon right now.https://twitter.com/Oregon_GOP/status/1142619631095439360 …
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That is ignorant, absurd hand-waiving. People may call, say, the Women's March or the Tea Party movement "terrorists" but that's moronic hyperbole. Groups with history of calls for political violence are different. OR3%ers are not the Young Republicans. Trust me.
I came into this conversation admitting my ignorance. I don’t know anything about Oregon militias other than being vaguely aware of tensions between coastal Oregon and the eastern parts of the state. Nonetheless, the phenomenon I mentioned is a thing
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It is. But *this* thing is a very, very different thing - one that does not fit so well into a whatabotism box, anymore than Portland's attempted jihadi suicide bomber of the public Holiday Tree lighting was the same as Tucker Carlson or Ben Shapiro.
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That’s why the first thing I asked was “what’s the crisis?” That wasn’t a rhetorical question. Also, pointing out that it’s hard to discern news on the internet because so many people have a partisan take isn’t whataboutism.
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