"Terrorist attack" + calls to "do something" = curtailment of civil liberties. It's the same pattern every single time
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So what word or words would you say is accurate in describing a white nationalist murdering 20 people to advance a nativist political agenda?
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It's an act of political violence. It's not necessary to invoke the specter of "terrorism" given how loaded that term is, and how it virtually always results in the enactment of wrongheaded policy.
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Thanks for protecting our civil liberties.
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The "liberty" to carry weapons of war, lol
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Note how legislation that might inch the US toward the sort of sensible gun control laws of the rest of the world -- such as a ban on assault weapons in civilian hands -- becomes a "civil liberties violation."
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Then why use White Nationalists in quotes and Islamists not in quotes:https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1120465964246736896?s=20 …
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Are you ever going to revisit this piece? https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/clinton-bolsters-the-alt-right/ …pic.twitter.com/CRIS904O4e
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You always manage to find a way to protect right-wing ideology.
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