There will always be these kinds of tradeoffs. Doing nothing is intolerable. But anything we do is also likely to prove intolerable. And people who back it will eventually face the same questions Biden hears now about 90s crime bills. https://twitter.com/AlanMCole/status/1159644766407147522 …
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4. This is not an argument for or against using the momentum of moral panics to pass laws; laws may be good or bad. It's an argument for recognizing when we're in one (so, proceed w/caution), & for understanding why previous generations acted as they did during one.
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The writer of this chain of tweets seems to be unaware of the War on Terror, a response to an extremely rare event, which I'm sure he enthusiastically supported.
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If the media gave attention to the numbers of people killed by illegal aliens every year we would finally have serious immigration reform. Like mass shootings, it’s a small % within a larger community.
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Is it? Where are these numbers?
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Moral panic? Dude this has been going on for 20+ years and nothing of political substance has been accomplished. the “rhetorical momentum” hasn’t been unstoppable at all
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The “rhetorical momentum” of good guy with a gun, on the other hand, has been an unstoppable force of epic proportions
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