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Replying to @jhvilas
Sigh. I found the ADL report Singer cites, no thanks to him. It does the usual trick of attributing ordinary murders by white prison gang members to 'right-wing extremism', which reliably inflates the RW numbers. Nobody calls MS-13 'left-wing'.
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Also smh at 'false claims of shadowbanning'. Twitter-style shadowbans are slightly different from Reddit's, but they're quite real, one happened to me about a year ago.
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Replying to @St_Rev
I don't think that means that shadowbanning hasn't been widely mischaracterized.
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Replying to @jhvilas
There was furious activity to try to characterize it correctly, no thanks to Twitter, leading to several sites that would explain how it worked and would automatically check your status, mostly by running a few different kinds of searches for your @.
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This is the ADL report -- had to click through to a WSJ article, which linked to a qz article, which linked the actual report.https://www.adl.org/resources/reports/murder-and-extremism-in-the-united-states-in-2017#the-incidents …
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Half the items are like this one: "North Judson, Indiana, March 3, 2017. Aryan Circle member Edward Blackburn allegedly shot and killed another man who was reportedly dating his ex-girlfriend." Yes, he's a racist and a horrible person, but calling this "right-wing violence"...
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...is like counting Harvey Weinstein's assaults as examples of "Jewish rape". It's an obnoxious slur, because there's no apparent ideological component to the crime. And again, notice that the black nationalist crimes on the list aren't attributed to the left.
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Sigh, scratch that, they DO count black nationalists as left-wing, my bad. Third chart onhttps://www.adl.org/resources/reports/murder-and-extremism-in-the-united-states-in-2017#the-perpetrators …
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The text of the report does try to distinguish between ideological and non-ideological killings, and this comment at the end kind of undermines the whole thing: "...non-ideological murders committed by extremists other than white supremacists are probably underrepresented here."
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But the takeaway for idiots (like respected philosopher Singer) is that third chart on page 2, which a) measures an irrelevant and borderline fraudulent statistic and b) does it poorly.
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