This is compounded by the fact that lily-livered Whigs actually think that the level of violence is a proxy for legitimacy of grievance!
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Other examples are Ferguson & Baltimore, where all the most important authorities backed, encouraged & apologised for the riots
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Political violence is driven by incentives not by strength of grievancehttp://www.adamsmith.org/blog/liberty-justice/stand-up-to-bullies …
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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 …
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More valuable thoughts here http://www.jeremybowman.com/wordpress/?p=1971 …
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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 …
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If true, flog these scumbagshttp://metro.co.uk/2016/07/19/men-rubbed-fake-poo-on-four-year-old-girls-face-in-racist-attack-6015714/ …
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Charlottesville is further proof: political violence & protests come when a side is winning and confident, not when they're losing
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Ben Southwood Retweeted Ken Tremendous
Precisely this. But turn that gaze inward! It goes both ways...https://twitter.com/KenTremendous/status/896404822156496896 …
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