Nobody takes two seconds to wonder: is there really a sudden reemergence of this phenomenon, can it be attributed to political trends, etc.
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We *know* indisputably that Muslims and Arabs have been disproportionately victimized by recent policy. And yet media dwell on this sideshow
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Organizations like ADL have been roundly mocked in the past for their obvious alarmism/cynicism around anti-Semitism. Now they're Good again
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There is a long, documented history of media confabulating moral panics to further various political aims. People should be cognizant.
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Sure but we know almost nothing about the perpetrators. Certainly not enough to make any grand extrapolations.
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There is insufficient evidence to make any definitive pronouncements given that we have no idea who the perpetrators are
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Hence the alarmist rush to judgment based on a handful of purported incidents is just lazy media narrative-constructing
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I think you want the perpetrators to be Muslim so you can justify Trumps actions
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I wouldn't foreclose on the possibility that he's right. Just want to see evidence before issuing conclusive proclamations
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this didn't get much coverage -- was planning attack at a synagogue.http://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article133112679.html …
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Read the whole thread and tell me specifically what you object to.
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I actually don't see any of that as necessarily incompatible with my thread.
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What's a sideshow is the resulting alarmist media narrative
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Shouldn't we wait for at least a modicum of info as to the identity of the perpetrators before making grand extrapolations
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But the cemetery vandalism is what's driving today's narrative. That knee-jerk narrative-weaving is what I'm critical of.
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