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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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    Every time I say this, "both sides" freak out but it doesn't make it any less true: Liberals and leftists who fixate endlessly on an exaggerated threat of "Nazis" are the mirror image of right-wingers who fixate endlessly on the exaggerated threat of "Radical Islamic Terror"

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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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        Yeah, I'm aware that one person died in Charlottesville in August 2017. Two months later, eight people died in Manhattan as a result of a "radical Islamic terror" attack. Inflating the threat posed by EITHER phenomenon because it flatters your sense of moral grandiosity is inane

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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        And again, clearly radical Islamism is a serious threat in places like Syria, and the same can be said for Nazis in Ukraine. But what happens in the US, at a time of unprecedented society-wide safety, is that moralizing political actors inflate threats when it suits their agenda

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      4. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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        What always happens is that the threats are then used as justification for overzealous legislative and law enforcement action, which threatens civil liberties (and more recently gets invoked to censor the internet.) That's the pattern, and I don't care if noting it makes you mad

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      5. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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        Michael Tracey Retweeted Matt Stoller

        As the cryptographer Bruce Schneier often observes: "The risk of dying in the US from terrorism is substantially less than the risk of drowning in your bathtub, the risk of a home appliance killing you, or the risk of dying in an accident caused by a deer"https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1130100249878499328 …

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        Matt StollerVerified account @matthewstoller
        115 people die a day from opioid overdoses. Whatever you think of claims from the right or left about threats, I see no interest in framing mass murder by the billionaire Sackler family with anywhere near the same heat as either side's political opposition. https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1130096582257512448 …
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      6. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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        Yet somehow, these relatively minor threats -- because they're salacious and provoke wide-ranging culture war fury -- always seem to attract dramatically greater attention than the threat posed by: the military-industrial complex, the financial industry, corrupt cops, Big Pharma

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      2. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert May 19
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        This is blithering nonsense. The entirety of media and offialdom have focused endlessly on the Islamist threat since 9/11 and utterly excluded any concern about white nationalism, both as a matter of public awareness and as official response.https://www.revealnews.org/article/home-is-where-the-hate-is/ …

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      3. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert May 19
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        Obviously, the raw numbers involved in terrorism are relatively small — which is the whole point of it. It’s meant to be asymmetric. It has a disproportionate effect beyond the numbers in spreading fear and distrust. Just ask @ggreenwald about the effects of Bolsonaro’s killings.

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      2. Simon Chen, MD‏ @simonbchen May 19
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        Can we teach our kids some basic statistics at an early age and inculcate in them (and adults as well) that the tail-end 0.1% percentile of a Bell curve statistical distribution doesn’t represent the entire population? I think we’d make a lot greater progress.

        7 replies 6 retweets 64 likes
      3. Thomas Ray‏ @TommyRay_NM May 19
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        Seriously. Journalists could use this as well.

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      2. Consent Factory‏ @consent_factory May 19
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        https://consentfactory.org/2018/12/19/the-year-of-putin-nazi-paranoia/ …

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey May 19
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        Great post!

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      2. A.R. Moxon (Julius Ghost)‏ @JuliusGoat May 19
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        breathtaking stuff my man

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      1. t‏ @tgracchus1848 May 19
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        i admire your commitment to posting through it, Michael. lmfao

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      1. Daniel Baryon‏ @apeirophobic May 19
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        Except that fascist rhetoric has LONG been the purview of the GOP and now it has just been unmasked and mainstreamed for the public to see. Compare this to radical Islamic terror...a completely irrelevant distraction in American politics. Dreadfully shallow analysis, Michael.

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      2. Patrick Henningsen‏Verified account @21WIRE May 19
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        Most Liberal Leftists would Not know a real Nazi if it jumped up from under their bed and goose-stepped across their room in black leather.

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      2. Andrew Bisharat‏ @EveningSends May 19
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        Both are problems that deserve to be fought. The freak out is because only one is being fought.

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      3. Eric A. Sutton‏ @EricASu07461323 May 19
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        Every bit of that. All of it.

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      1. ((captain liddle' blue bedbug meme))‏ @TheBlueMeme May 19
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        FB and Twitter wrote algorithms to filter out Jihadists. They are deployed. FB & Twitter wrote algos to filter out Nazis, too. They are not deployed, because they snare significant numbers of elected Republicans. See the problem?

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