Let me first lay out some facts to remind everyone & then I'll expound: 2/x
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Much energy was given to debating whether the incident in Charlottesville could be classified as "terrorism" https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/14/was-the-charlottesville-car-attack-domestic-terrorism-a-hate-crime-or-both/ …
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A white supremacist, James Alex Field, Jr., plowed his car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters, killing 1 & injuring 19 others 3/x
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He was there as part of an organized, national mobilization of white supremacist groups to Charlottesville 4/xhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/public-safety/study-charlottesville-white-supremacist-rally-in-august-drew-attendees-from-35-states/2017/10/08/fe57868e-ac45-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html …
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They were there to protest city's plan to remove a monument to Robert E Lee (a stance John Kelly defended yesterday
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Again, this was an ORGANIZED NATIONAL NETWORK of white supremacist hate groups mobilizing to a city & people were beaten and killed 6/x
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*rubs temples* There's so many layers as I recall it all. Please google search if you don't remember. I'll move on to next set of facts 7/x
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1 of "Unite the Right" rally organizers who led infamous torch march, Richard Spencer, held event in FL recently 8/x https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/10/17/us/university-florida-richard-spencer-speech/index.html …
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Following THAT event, 3 white supremacists who traveled there for speech, opened fire on anti-racists protesters 9/x https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/grade-point/wp/2017/10/20/kill-them-three-men-charged-in-shooting-after-richard-spencer-speech/ …
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At least 1 of the men involved in FL shooting, Tenbrinck, had also attended the rally in Charlottesville 10/xpic.twitter.com/ghJxsmMrzm
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Another, Fears, said he was also in Charlottesville, that he came equipped for violence & man who killed Heather Heyer wasnt unjustified 11/pic.twitter.com/OL7IGVdBbl
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So we're talking about same individuals participating in at least 2 acts of violence that we know of as part of an ideological movement 12/x
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Now, some observation. 13/x
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Only real factor distinguishing what happened in NYC & what happened in Charlottesville is the identity & ideology of the killer 14/x
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Hesitancy 2 use "terrorism" describing attacks by racists w/ same ease & immediacy it's used 2 describe attacks by PoC & Muslims... 15/x
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...reflects a reluctance to acknowledge white supremacy as the organized, violent ideological movement it is 16/x
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I could go into all the reasons why this reluctance exists, but if you follow my feed I lay these reasons out on a near weekly basis. 17/
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1 of most striking differences in how white supremacist violence is covered in news is that it's rarely placed in context of other violence
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Yesterday's attack in NYC was immediately framed as occurring within context of a series of similar attacks internationally 19/
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By contrast, white supremacist attackers often framed as acting alone, w/o connection made to a larger ideological movement or similar acts
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Let's revisit tweet #8 again so I can remind you that Richard Spencer is credited w/ coining the term "alt-right"https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/alt-right …
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Former Trump adviser Bannon initially described his media outlet Breitbart as "the platform for the alt-right" in August 2016 22/x
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Now, imagine if either white supremacist ideology or the "alt-right" received same type of policing as "Islamic extremism" 23/x
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That would have major implications for figures involved at the highest levels of government, wouldn't it? 24/x
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Tho not advocating violence, Kelly's statement on Lee was an ideological defense of Unite the Right rally in Cvillehttps://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/544553/ …
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Remember, Kelly's comments on R.E. Lee came within the context of a question posed to him about efforts to remove confederate monuments 26/
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Now, if I'm not mistaken, Muslims have been hyper-policed in response to terrorist attacks for far less. For things like... being Muslim 27/
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Again, difference is white supremacy can not be identified as a violent, ideological movement w/o indicting the power structure itself 28/
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