Thread by @PatBlanchfield

seeing certain Dems - again - invoking a familiar National Security frame to deal w/ mass shootings. we've seen this before - it does not go good places. I anticipated and called this out for @nplusonemag in 2016. some things have changed - but not much nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

ask yourself : who has the terror label been applied against most consistently, what communities has it been used to harm? then ask if you trust a security and policing apparatus that's again and again operated hand in glove w/ the white power movement to do it "right" this time

I'll believe they're serious about treating this as "terror" the moment they send SEAL team 6 to disappear a few senators and TV hosts the exact same way they'd off or black site some guy who posted "inspirational" terror videos from am Afghan madrasa. until then miss me w/ this

in case you didn't think the terror frame was at least suspect if not rotten to the core here is Jake Tapper casually disclosing how the unmarked basic form of "terror" and "hate" has always been, and will always be, asymmetrically racialized

https://twitter.com/IbrahimAS97/status/1158036628100849664

note what the NYT skirts here, what it can't say: the US fighting "terror" = rendition and execution of "terrorists" and people who inspire "terror." we. kill. american. citizens. for. this. when. they. are. muslim. unless the plan is droning Tucker Carlson this is 100% bullshit

are we going to going to send Blackwater to set up checkpoints outside heartland Cabelas, and immunize them in case they "accidentally" mow down a few dozen shoppers? spend twenty years dropping white phosphorous on farmers in fucking Idaho? FOH with this gross shit

doubling down on the fundamental us/them principle of fascism and arming a security apparatus ridden with fascists to fight fascism is some galaxy level centrist media bullshit. just pay Erik Prince $400 to write another op-ed asking the state department to give him more money

the day a guy named Gus and his 14 year old "military age male" son are vaporized by a hellfire missile in the family Tacoma because Gus's MAGADad YouTube channel tripped an algorithm for Terror Content will be the day the NYT goes full third worldist and a subzero day in hell

but you know what? I'd love to see the NYT put its money where its mouth is about defunding, deplatforming, and punishing hate. next time Bret Stephens writes about the Crisis of American Birth Rates, just fire him. you don't even have to send him to get waterboarded in Thailand