Third is the base rate issue. If we're to believe the news these days, everybody who voted for Trump is a Far Right Violent Extremist. 5/
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Replying to @St_Rev
Well, that's what, about 20% of the population? Meanwhile, Muslims are 1% of the population; probably at most 5% of them are Islamist. 6/
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Replying to @St_Rev
A more sober estimate still suggests Far Right Violent Extremists outnumber Islamists by at least 50 to 1. 7/
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Replying to @St_Rev
Minor takeaways: Some of the incidents on the Far Right Violent Extremist list are questionable, like the IRS plane crash guy. 8/
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The NYT article is very very VERY concerned about Muslims being targeted by violence. But the incidents don't bear that out. 9/
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Most Far Right Violent Extremism targets: blacks, gays, hispanics, cops. NYT has to go outside the report to find any targeting Muslims. 10/
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Replying to @St_Rev
As usual, NYT starts with a story, then bricolages factoids until they form a shell in the shape of the plotline they already chose. 11/11
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Oh hey look at that, apparently I'm a Far Right Violent Extremist too! 12/11pic.twitter.com/yQ53o4TSHs
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Replying to @St_Rev
Good thread but this is misleading. Theyre saying common beliefs of extremists, not that everyone w those is a terrorist
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Look at the specific incident descriptions. Dude goes postal, it's labeled far-right terrorism bc he might/might not have used a slur.
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They're using the list to characterize crimes *as* terrorism, based on who committed them, even when terror/politics were irrelevant.
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