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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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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I take your point. I'm actually saying something slightly different. Drowning in a bathtub is an accident with a certain moral frame, an opioid OD epidemic or a terrorist attack actually have moral villains.
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I've been saying this forever. Only I don't have a blue check next to my name. Also.. Wall Street destroys more black families than any racist reporting a lemonade stand
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Doesn’t the source of the threat play a larger role than its lethality? Eg. we don’t talk suicides when arguing gun restrictions because it’s self inflicted. Opioid crisis fits this narrative?
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state violence toward immigrants, the risk of systemic poverty & living a shorter life due to exposure to toxics, the risk of being incarcerated over debt —all ongoing.The risk of bombing other countries is a constant. White supremacy is the through line that makes it acceptable
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I get your thread. This specific argument however is not convincing. This is from ‘The Bathtub Fallacy and Risks of Terrorism’ by Kenneth Anderson:pic.twitter.com/zs2q8frSYI
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Coconuts falling out of trees are more dangerous.
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I’m in 100% agreement about the threat to civil liberties and free speech, but the risk of dying from terrorism cannot be estimated from past events the way accidents and freak events can — mediocristan vs extremistan as
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Let’s keep it that way. I feel like the left won’t acknowledge the scale of Islamic terrirism until we won’t be able to get on a bus anywhere without fear of it blowing up. And Natzis? There is a threat but it’s literally expunged from acceptance. EVERYWHERE
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Yeah I don't think people are opposing white nationalism just because they're afraid of dying in one of many white nationalist massacres, Michael. The shootings are symptoms of the rise of an ideology. How is this so hard for your brain to handle?
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Was that true in 2001?
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following from that observation is that terrorism is not a national security threat. And, following from that, all government claims that suppress information in courts and congress are illegitimate.
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