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I’ve got a piece in the mag about the white supremacy surge, examining the way social disconnection enables radicalization and how right-wing addiction to defying political correctness acts as a gateway to the worst voices. Houston, we’ve got a problem: nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/…
Hatred for political correctness creates an unhealthy response. Young voices pride themselves on pure fearlessness and attitude. They troll online and at school to “trigger the libs,” and nothing triggers the libs more than defiance on matters of race: nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/…
A secularizing Right is not a better Right. Non-churchgoing Trump voters are more likely they were to say that being white was “very important” to their identity. Fewer than half of non-churchgoing Trump voters had “warm feelings” for black people: nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/…
Censuring and condemning — though necessary — don’t address root causes. Faith and family can act as a vaccine against extremism. We might wish that better politics could be the cure, but only a purpose be­yond politics can truly transform the human heart: nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/…
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Gotta disagree with the awesomes @WilcoxNMP as he disagrees with me in this thread /1:
First I’m a bit mystified by his assertion that I underplay the “major economic, political, civic & cultural forces” in the fall of our working class. What I reject is the populist focus on elites in Tucker’s piece. Here’s what I say in my piece /2:
Elites aren’t irrelevant, but the Carlson focus on elites is just wrong. It’s factually wrong and has its own negative consequences as it focuses popular anger an energy away from the things that are most likely to help any given family succeed /3.
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Short thread. It's absurd that I have to do this, but my wife @NancyAFrench is the subject of a vile tweets by @julie_kelly2 from a MAGA publication called "American Greatness." For background, my wife is a victim of childhood sexual abuse 1/: washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-f…
In that first article, she called what happened to her "pedophilia" and sex abuse. In an article last year, she amplified what happened to her and explained it occurred when she was 12 years old 2/: washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-f…
What happened to Nancy was evil, but she has persevered through that abuse, through other dreadful things, and is a wonderful wife and amazing mother to our three kids. She's brave and kind and compassionate. 3/
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So, about this Jesse Kelly thing . . .

Twitter should be transparent, especially for prominent public accounts. He’s a radio host and former candidate for public office. The silence raises the inference that he was banned for reasons that can’t withstand public scrutiny. 1/
Social media platforms should be run on First Amendment principles, and participants who complain about toxic public voices should be reminded they have mute and block options. 2/
But there is immense progressive peer pressure to make sure that Twitter/Facebook are instruments of progressive social change. The idea that progressives build platforms that conservatives successfully use to advance their ideas is intolerable to some. 3/
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I have a number of sources inside the far-right, including some with recent contact with Fields. One thing they tell me is that Fields thinks he’s smarter than everyone else and has disdain for the people he’s in with. That’s not gonna fly in prison.
There’s a big gap between the white supremacy of the Aryan Brotherhood and the Richard Spencer brand bullshit.
Right before Spencer got epically punched, he was saying how neo-Nazis hate him. He wasn’t dodging. It’s true. The traditional white power movement thinks he’s a tool, and vice-versa.
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So let's unpack this contemptible, fact-free, and wholly incendiary column by @DavidAFrench. First there is no evidence of a "white-supremacy surge" and French must know this because he offers little but anecdotal incidents to prove his case. 1/ nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/…
Here's the "study" French cites.
Not only does it offer no data to show a surge in white supremacy, whites are the 3rd most targeted group after blacks and LGBT. Jews, Latinos and Muslims fare better. (The 2 authors also blame Russians for inciting hate.)
csbs.csusb.edu/sites/csusb_cs…
Further, the study says that based on early reporting from these major cities "we are forecasting a significant national decrease in 2018" for the 1st half of the year. So no surge? Thanks, Trump? (Page 9)

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csbs.csusb.edu/sites/csusb_cs…
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Kavanaugh and the Information Terrorists Trying to Reshape America wired.com/story/informat…
Dr. Ford received death threats over email and social media.

Among those cheering on the hate-trollers were Roger Stone, Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, Cassandra Fairbanks, and conspiracist-in-chief, Alex Jones.
Since day one of DT's candidacy the focus has been on botnets & sockpuppets.

This overshadows the cadre of people who INITIATE & coordinate the flow of info & how their narratives, built over time, influence how we see politics, ourselves, and the world around us.
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1. Churnalism in action:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnalism

- Former white supremacist claims in reddit AMA that neo-Nazis use Fortnight to recruit.

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 - 6/28/18: reddit AMA mentioned on a video game forum.

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- 6/29/18: Niche comics website runs story about claims. Does not fact check or ask Epic Games for comment but tells readers "It's something that we all need to be aware of, especially those of us who have children of our own who play games online."

comicbook.com/gaming/2018/06…
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Why does Twitter deliberately target Right-wing accounts for Shadow-banning and why it will sooner rather than later completely back-fire and why they are ultimately going to destroy the Left and what a great day that will be. Thread. 1/15
It is no surprise Twitter targets accounts for “wrong think” or as we on the #Right like to call it “free-think” this is because of two events which are now totally and utterly inextricably linked, #Brexit and #Trump and the Establishment have been rocked to the core. 2/15
Neither of which were supposed to happen & yet they did now the Establishment is determined never to allow it to happen again or even at all, the reason for them happening was nothing to do with social media, but was to do with people knocking on doors and persuading others. 3/15
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1. The Major Purveyor of ‘Fake News’ is the CIA-Corporate Complex
*The msm's strings are being pulled by the modern vers of CIA’s old Operation MOCKINGBIRD another media influencing operation, ...
2. ..is laughably accusing Russia of generating fake news and/or hacking into our systems to influence the outcome of the American presidential election.
3. In a November 24, 2016, article in the CIA-connected Washington Post, reporter Craig Timberg reported: "Russia’s increasingly sophisticated propaganda machinery ...
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