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    1. Alex Candy Kanes Will Kill Civilization‏Verified account @alexbkane 21 Feb 2017
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      Alex Candy Kanes Will Kill Civilization Retweeted Michael Tracey

      I'm going to join the pile-on because it's so absurd. What do you call bomb threats to 54 Jewish Community Centers?https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/834092248799154180 …

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      Michael TraceyVerified account @mtracey
      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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    2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 21 Feb 2017
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      I question whether those incidents can be cited as evidence of a society-wide, statistical uptick in anti-semitic sentiment.

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    3. Alex Candy Kanes Will Kill Civilization‏Verified account @alexbkane 21 Feb 2017
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      You won't see stats until a few months or a year down the road, but it is objectively true this was not happening before.

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    4. Peter Hart‏ @peterfhart 21 Feb 2017
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      'Thing A wasn't happening as much until very recently' sounds like evidence that something has changed.

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    5. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 21 Feb 2017
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      Can we at least get basic info as to the perpetrators of the bomb hoaxes before constructing grand narratives?

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    6. Doug Henwood‏ @DougHenwood 21 Feb 2017
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      Michael, I’ve never subscribed to a lot of left criticisms of you but the anti-Semitic incidents are real

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    7. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 21 Feb 2017
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      Thanks Doug. I'm not denying the realness of these incidents. I'm questioning the veracity of a

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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 21 Feb 2017
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      ...full-fledged media narrative asserting that antisemitism is somehow a dominant force in American life

      1:04 PM - 21 Feb 2017
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        2. Doug Henwood‏ @DougHenwood 21 Feb 2017
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          it’s not dominant, but it’s growing, and Trump has enabled/promoted it

          2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
        3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 21 Feb 2017
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          Replying to @DougHenwood @peterfhart @alexbkane

          Trump is a lot of bad things, but "anti-semitism enabler" is nowhere near the top of the list.

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        2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 21 Feb 2017
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          Nobody contests that bomb hoaxes happened. Q is whether the overall threat is being properly represented

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        3. Foggy Anabasis‏ @foggyanabasis 21 Feb 2017
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          E.g there were over 1200 bomb threats to U.S. schools last year, a big increase. No media freakout.http://www.campussafetymagazine.com/article/study_reveals_sharp_increase_in_school_bomb_threats …

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        1. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 21 Feb 2017
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          someone may be asserting this I guess, but it's a bit of a straw man.

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        1. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 21 Feb 2017
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          you don't need society wide uptick. All you need is for small groups to be emboldened

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        1. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 21 Feb 2017
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          or for one political parties leaders to sidle up to anti semites.

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        1. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 21 Feb 2017
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          small groups getting more anti semitic can have measurable effects on life for Jewish ppl.

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        1. Noah Berlatsky‏Verified account @nberlat 21 Feb 2017
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          bomb threats are fairly good evidence that this has happened.

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        1. Nick‏ @tastybisch 21 Feb 2017
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          when has anyone in mainstream media said anti-Semitism is a "dominant force in American life"?

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        1. soylent aleichem‏ @cholent_lover 21 Feb 2017
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          lol at someone w a check mark who doesn't understand the cyclical and discursive nature of anti-Semitism but insists on commenting

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        2. soylent aleichem‏ @cholent_lover 21 Feb 2017
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          the alt right is becoming an actual political force and anti-Semitic rhetoric is absolutely on the rise.

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        3. soylent aleichem‏ @cholent_lover 21 Feb 2017
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          Replying to @cholent_lover @mtracey

          Jews dnt live under same threat of immediate harm Muslims in the us might bc jews r assimilable until enough ppl decide theyre not

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