They have the same data as the ADL on the declining number of real attacks.
Instead, they fudged the numbers to fit a narrative.
This narrative is going to get LOTS of media and Twitter replay over the next week. The feature-length coverage the @washingtonpost gave to it guarantees it.
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@donwinslow crosses the line between the public debate over a complex issue and agitprop aimed at inciting violence against Americans.
The fact that this video still has a platform after being seen by ~3m people shows that the social networks aren't trying to stop violence, they are trying to gain political favor.
The REAL danger facing a world interconnected by networking isn't disruption. As we have seen on numerous occasions, the danger posed by disruptive information and events is fleeting.
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"Disruption, although potentially painful in the short term, doesn't last, nor is it truly damaging over the long term. In fact, the true danger posed by an internetworked world is just the opposite of disruption."
2/n
"This danger is an all-encompassing online orthodoxy. A sameness of thought and approach enforced by hundreds of millions of socially internetworked corporations. A global orthodoxy that ruthless narrows public thought down to a single, barren, ideological framework."
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“Older populations are whiter... Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to... them, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”
"In a meeting last month, all voting members of the committee (of independent health experts advising the CDC) indicated support for putting essential workers ahead of people 65 and older and those with high-risk health conditions."
“To me the issue of ethics is very significant, very important for this country, and clearly favors the essential worker group because of the high proportion of minority, low-income and low-education workers among essential workers.”
"racing to enact the biggest change to the federal civil service in generations, reclassifying (tens of thousands of) career employees at key agencies to strip their job protections and leave them open to being fired"
FWIW, this should happen after every policy disaster.
For example, after the financial crisis, everybody in top positions with an influence on economic/financial policy prior to the crisis should have been fired/blacklisted from government service/consulting.
There's a long list of policy disasters over the last 25 years, yet all of the people involved never paid any price for their bad decision making.