Evidence for my theory of political violence—riots, terrorism, attacks—you get worse when you're winninghttps://twitter.com/IAmBirmingham/status/747756875484139520 …
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Ben Southwood Retweeted I Am Birmingham
Evidence for my theory of political violence—riots, terrorism, attacks—you get worse when you're winninghttps://twitter.com/IAmBirmingham/status/747756875484139520 …
Ben Southwood added,
Hence why all the worst 1960s US race riots happened *after* Civil Rights & things getting better for blacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States#Civil_Rights_Movement_and_Black_Power_period:_1955.E2.80.931973 …
This is compounded by the fact that lily-livered Whigs actually think that the level of violence is a proxy for legitimacy of grievance!
Other examples are Ferguson & Baltimore, where all the most important authorities backed, encouraged & apologised for the riots
Political violence is driven by incentives not by strength of grievancehttp://www.adamsmith.org/blog/liberty-justice/stand-up-to-bullies …
Ben Southwood Retweeted Ben Southwood
All the casual empiricism points toward my theory, I believe. And I've seen some academic literature on it toohttps://twitter.com/bswud/status/630405912868585472 …
Ben Southwood added,
More valuable thoughts here http://www.jeremybowman.com/wordpress/?p=1971 …
And very magisterial sweeps of the literature on "grievances" & terrorism here http://anonymousmugwump.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/blowback-against-blowback.html … http://anonymousmugwump.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/blowback-against-glenn-greenwald-1.html …
anomalyuk Retweeted Sadanand Dhume
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