Sporadic instances of right-wing violence have occurred for hundreds of years. Random violence in general is simply a constant of American life. But rather than deal rationally with this reality, emotional manipulators whip up grand narratives to serve their political interests
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The Jeet conflated "correlation-causality"
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Wouldn’t improving the material conditions of target communities free resources so they can better defend themselves from right wing violence & other threats? Assume they are in the best position to decide which threats they want to prioritize, not ppl who aren’t being targeted
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ok but many of these instances have been committed by people who expressly cite trump as their inspiration...
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Arendt in The Origin of Totalitarianism documents the process: the denial of the principle of human rights, removal of protections for vulnerable people, denaturalizations of citizens, dehumanization. We have all this + ICE and 1000 detentions centers.
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I can definitely see Bernie telling his followers to “Punch ‘em in the face I’ll cover your legal bills... What happened to the good old days when they’d carry ‘em out on a stretcher?” Sure thing. Get off the crack or stop trolling just for the hell of it.
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This is so bizarre. We're talking about probabilities and common sense here, not Cartesian certainty. If we wanted to be especially hard-headed, we could claim that no "conclusive" causal link had been established between prevelance of lynchings & non-prosecution of lynchers.
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Exactly!!!
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It's impossible to say whether President Trump's loud repeated widely broadcast encouragement to his white nationalist fans to attack people at his fascist rallies and promises to pay their legal bills has contributed to the uptick in white nationalist violence.
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