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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Mar 19
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      The Right will never admit that their exaggerated, overblown reaction to "radical Islamic terror" has anything in common with The Left's exaggerated, overblown reaction to "white nationalist terror." And visa versa. But threat inflation is a thoroughly bipartisan enterprise

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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Mar 19
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      Every time I tweet something to this effect, there's a roughly 50/50 influx of Right and Left angrily denying the assertion. Doesn't mean "both sides" are the same, or that their impulses are morally equivalent. But does reflect the stubborn refusal to admit any commonality.

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        1. Mookie‏ @mikeweinstein Mar 19
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          Folks, that's what we call a "hard backpedal"

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        1. Tom Shipley‏ @therealtomship Mar 19
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          Again, the point isn't about admitting commonality with left or right or whoever, it's about the specific point you are making. Facts don't back it up. You don't back it up. You just use the "both sides" moral superiority blanket as a shield.

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        2. Charles Bobrinskoy‏ @Cbob200 Mar 19
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          There is no more fatuous editorial trope than, "both sides are mad at me so I must be right." No, it just means everyone can see how silly your comment was.

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        3. will james‏ @tunbelly Mar 19
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          Well said

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        1. Carl Nyberg‏ @CarlNyberg312 Mar 19
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          "Both sides are motivated by the same emotional impulse, if one accepts that pushing to make society to be more unequal is the same as pushing to make society more equal."

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        2. Oops! The Planet! ⓥ‏ @TippingElements Mar 19
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          It’s David Frum in 2002 about the “civilized world” & Frum in 2019 scapegoating immigrants, it’s in state & industry, political parties. It’s within Freedom Foundation trying to screw workers. It’s vigilantes who harangue homeless & immigrants here.

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        3. Oops! The Planet! ⓥ‏ @TippingElements Mar 19
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          You’re suggesting people deny reality. I have a laundry list of provable phenomena (that I really wish I didn’t have.) I just canvassed against a ballot measure they ran! You’re asking me to deny reality. But rather than feel slowly invalidated, I’ll take it as a compliment!

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        1. Brosef Martinez ⏳‏ @Got2LuvTheDrake Mar 19
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          Maybe I’m influenced by personal biases, but the aspect of Islamic terror being potentially a “network” could justify it being scarier in someone’s mind

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        1. Nick Rock‏ @astoldbyNGR Mar 19
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          And it's always people in small towns thinking there's terror on the horizon and people in nyc/chicago/sf thinking white supremacists are all around them lol

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        1.  🇨🇦 Sauron‏ @Nemesis4All Mar 19
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          Expect one side is using statistics and the other is using emotions.

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        2. Brian‏ @bcorchiolo Mar 19
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          I think if anything the media has overblown the reaction to islamic terror.

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        3. Doves (Elizabeth Hamilton)‏ @dovesandletters Mar 19
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          That depends on what country you live in and what media you take in.

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        1. Ghoststein‏ @Goatstein Mar 19
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          Actually it's about 1/3 each left and right denying the assertion and 1/3 fascists expressing great replacement conspiracy theories or blaming muslims for being killed

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        1. Lank‏ @lank52_lank Mar 19
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          Nor will they!

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        1. Ken Moore, Confusopoly Translator‏ @KenatGV Mar 19
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          chimps run together trick is to use the right persuasion, at the right time, to disengage their chimps (& allow them to exercise) to allow the humans to take over. Its why, for example, when Fox talks about the #GreenNewDeal they need to embrace a #GreenEnergyDeal. Green is good

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        1. Coshoct‏ @Coshoct Mar 19
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          You must have the highest hate follow ratio of anybody on Twitter. For the record, I follow for the spark of joy.

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        1. Leon C-137‏ @NotQuiteHereYet Mar 19
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          *starts shitting on the floor* If everyone is mad at me then I must be doing something right!

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        1. OvertonGringo‏ @OvertonGringo Mar 19
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          Or it reflects there is a difference, and more nuance than a tweet can convey. Especially on an issue as controversial as this.

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        1. NYC THERAPIST‏ @nyctherapist Mar 19
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          Do you have a view about which impulse is less moral?

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