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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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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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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White Supremacy and Radical Islam are the dual spectres of US 'Countering Violent Extremism' (
#CVE) doctrine. One fuelling the other, both conceived as radicalisation of individuals online (#StochasticTerrorism), a rationale for surveillance, censorship and domestic operations.pic.twitter.com/BXg2fACLnc
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Case in point, the Patriot Act.
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I got called a racist when I said that you can’t sentence Arapio for things he wasn’t charged for. I didn’t say that his tent prisons were good I said if you believe his negligence and torture caused deaths then charge him with those crimes then sentence him if he gets a guilty
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U must
content in your #whiteright bubble 2 make time 4 this#feelzmeter spew. Any other inane topics that contribute 2 your void u got planned in the near future? I need 2 come prepared 2 ingest your scribe vibe. Does it hurt in the middle.. ?#ouchpic.twitter.com/6kqSBAMIsl
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Wait, you just switched arguments. Do legislators misuse the results of horrible acts no matter the side that commits them? YES But that doesn't make the threat to Americans from white supremacists and radical Muslims equal. SMH
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Thank you for stating the obvious Overzealous Good Word Better word? Zealots
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