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Counterintuitively, it might happen that people's attitude toward Muslims improves both after terror attacks and policies or rhetoric perceive to be anti-Muslim (thread):
Following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, favorable views of Muslim Americans rose from 45% to 59%. Following the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in France, favorable views of Muslims rose from 72% to 76%, very favorable views from 14% to 25%. pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015…
Following the Paris terror attacks, anti-Muslim bias decreased in UK and the proportion who felt London was worse off for its diversity fell from 32% to 24%. newsweek.com/anti-muslim-se…
Following the Orlando nightclub shooting, the percent of Americans holding a favorable view of Muslims rose from 53% to 62%. newsmax.com/newsfront/amer…
Trump changed Americans’ view of Islam–for the better. Attitudes toward “Muslim people” became progressively more favorable from 53 percent in November 2015 to 70 percent in October 2016. brookings.edu/blog/markaz/20…
Trump’s “Muslim ban” actually improved attitudes toward Muslims. vox.com/identities/201…
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Its government guarantees all human rights as long as citizens do not live within autonomous communes.

98% of the population live within an authoritarian commune that exerts arbitrary justice.

Outside of this commune is desert and a few oases populated by trolls and monsters.
Such coordination suggests that those companies constitute an information cartel that increasingly controls what the majority of the population can know and who can hear what people have to say.

First they came for a loony conspiracy theorist, tomorrow they might come for you.
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Thread: Examples of the long term impact of past institutions
Literacy rate in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1931. You can easily make out areas that were held by the Habsburgs for centuries, and those that were under the Turks.
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This raises another question: what is <knowledge>? Knowledge is related to identity ("sameness"). Here are some dimensions of knowledge: abstraction <= model <= implementation <= simulation <= emulation <= reproduction <= physical self
1. An abstraction (the simplified and idealized description of the attributes of an object or the behavior of a process) becomes a model when it describes not just the attributes and behavior of an object or process but also how they arise and are implemented.
2. A model (the static description of the physical properties of an object or of the dynamic state sequence exhibited by a process) becomes an implementation when it can be computed, visualized or otherwise instantiated.
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THREAD: Until recently, I worked hard using whatever free time I had to document and share thousands of examples of violent hate speech found beneath Breitbart articles. Breitbart has used their influence to steer their audience toward hate in a consequence-free environment.
Here are several threads that I've put together over the past two years demonstrating the threats of violence and hate that I've found in Breitbart comments.

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It is highly likely that the evidence provided by Netanyahu is reliable. 1/9
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I was of two minds as to whether this awful piece of writing in the @WSJ about British Muslims should be given any attention. On balance, given the misleading propaganda therein, deliberately designed to play on anti-Muslim bigotry, in a dangerous climate, here goes: #Thread
From the outset: I take extremism seriously. I was deputy convenor of the UK's government task-force on the issue, published a book with Brookings on it, and was seconded to the Foreign Office's counter-terrorism analyst team. This piece was not even on the level of amateur hour.
More broadly on Muslim Britons, Muslim Europeans and multiculturalism - I've been writing about that for a decade, and wrote a book on it with Edinburgh University Press. I'm not trying to brag here. There are far better academics than I. But this piece ignores all real work.
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1) The @StateDept has nominated Ken Isaacs to serve as director general of @UNmigration.

Isaacs has an extensive history of sharing anti-#Muslim sentiment on @Twitter, & has promoted the views of prominent anti-Muslim activists like Robert Spencer.

cnn.com/2018/03/15/pol…
(2) In December, Isaacs RTed the following tweet from Robert Spencer. Spencer is the head of multiple anti-Muslim organizations, and claims that American Muslim organizations and mosques are front groups for terrorists.

imgur.com/a/QzN6E
(3) In Jan, Isaacs RTed @frankgaffney, who heads the Center for Security Policy, a prominent anti-Muslim think-tank that has promoted conspiratorial claims about an impending Muslim takeover of the US.

For more on CSP, check out our factsheet: bridge.georgetown.edu/factsheet-cent…
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When #Muslims say scientific knowledge in #Qur’an proves its Divine origin, #atheists laugh. Share this #thread with them 👇 they’ll quickly stop laughing! 😆/1
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