Thread by @krudell

Am I happy the @FBI cracked the college admissions bribery case? Absolutely. I also wish 300 agents had spent the last year ripping the insides out of white nationalist terrorist groups.

After 9/11, the FBI reassigned agents who had been infiltrating alt-right militias and white supremacist groups, because Islamic fundamentalism was the new threat.

Sources were lost. White nationalism grew in the shade. brennancenter.org/sites/default/…

So while exposing the systemic inequality in college admissions is great (well done, FBI!), I’d rather see some Proud Boys getting frog marched from their homes than Lori Loughlin.

Also, everything @Farah_Pandith says about the potential for tech companies to help “disrupt” the message of Muslim extremism goes for white nationalism. There’s an ideological war happening, and the good guys aren’t using their best weapons.
npr.org/2019/03/12/702…

The problem is, Trump has explicitly cut funding for those types of programs. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

So while the Justice Department may have taken a big step this week in curbing college admissions bribes, I wish a commensurate amount of resources were preventing the next school, synagogue, or mosque attack.