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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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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so the multiple mass shootings in synagogues and mosques that have happened since then just don't factor into your analysis of this whatsoever?
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Are you aware of the multiple mass shootings and attacks carried out by "radical Islamic terrorists" in the past few years? No, unlike you presumably, I don't think those isolated attacks ought to be extrapolated into an exaggerated, all-consuming "threat"
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which specific radical islamic attacks from the last few years are you referring to
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November 2017: eight dead in Manhattan truck attack June 2016: 49 dead in Orlando mass shooting December 2015: 14 dead in San Bernardino mass shooting There's a couple. If you want to extrapolate that into a massive, scary threat posed by Radical Islamic Terror, be my guest
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Those are the only three that I can remember. Do you have any more? Because there've been more than that in the last year from the far-right extremists.
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There are a bunch more smaller ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_New_York_and_New_Jersey_bombings … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Ohio_State_University_attack … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Chattanooga_shootings … Because guess what, sporadic acts of violence are commonplace throughout US history
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