The media's bizarre new obsession with (allegedly) rising anti-semitism looks like a classic moral panic with dubious empirical grounding.
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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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i normally give you benefit of doubt with even the most dubious of takes but where are you going with this, man?
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That there's a long history in the media of confabulating moral scares to further political aims and this looks like another example
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"can it be attributed to political trends" so pol. trends are in some way a justification for bomb threats against a JCC. Got it.
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No, that's just your laughably tendentious interpretation.
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summer of '15 there was a lot of news about fires at black churches but few stopped to ask how many were actually arson/abnormal
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There's just a laziness with the presentation of this current scare that is really disconcerting
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The Apocalypse was not averted, so Trump must be causing plagues of locusts.pic.twitter.com/neX0Npguic
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Why not take two seconds to investigate yourself? The lazy person in this fiasco looks like you.
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I assumed it was merely increased reporting meant to give MSM a breather before diving into the next round of RUSSIAMANIA.
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The spotlight effect, which is knee jerk and narrative driven, always connects the dots regardless of causation and hard data.
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I follow Sol Salbe for my news in that respect.
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I HAVE thought this. Convince me, show me the data!
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@cocosbentmind They'll start catching these idiots and many will be a set up or kids but they all will be dealt with harshly, hopeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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