Thread by @MsEntropy

Welp.

This has to go in to the article draft I’m revising about domestic extremism, white supremacy, and the military’s response due…

Today.

(Thanks, Ken!)

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1392550022487625734

MEMRI?! The military is relying on MEMRI to root out domestic extremism in the ranks?

EID MUBARAK, Y’ALL.

(Even for the government, this is an insanely horrible idea.)

Oh look Twitter has a new revelation on white supremacy and the militar—

Thanks for the lovely Eid Mubarak wishes, @PentagonPresSec.

Using MEMRI as internal experts on domestic extremism in the military really demonstrates your level of support for Muslim Americans and shows just how seriously you take white supremacist threats on this holy day.

Just how egregiously insane is it for the military to use MEMRI as a source on identifying domestic extremism in the ranks?

Well, let’s put it this way:

Anders Breivik’s manifesto is littered with MEMRI citations.

“Hey let’s use the exact same people that one white supremacist mass murderer praised over and over in his white supremacist murder manifesto as our experts on why white supremacists are bad”

classic military ‘intelligence,’ right there

One of MEMRI’s board of directors is the guy who said the OKC bombing was clearly done by Middle Easterners — not Timothy McVeigh — because:

“As many casualties as possible” is a “Middle Eastern trait.”

This is who the Pentagon picked as experts on white supremacist violence.

Unplugging the router so I can add this DOD revelation to my article and submit it on time tonight.

Great (yet one more) example of why I have precisely zero confidence in military-led initiatives that “take seriously” the threat of white supremacists in the ranks.