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NY Times launches histrionic alarm over “white nationalism” days before election


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Jazz Shaw

Nov. 3 2018

I’m sure this will come as a shock to anyone who’s never read or even heard of the New York Times. The Gray Lady set off all sorts of alarms this weekend with a very special look at law enforcement and how they “failed to see the threat of white nationalism” and are now unable to cope with an epidemic of “right-wing extremism and violence.” I suppose I would be terribly rude to point out the rather “convenient” timing of this lengthy analysis, which will no doubt be a hot topic at CNN and MSNBC right up through Tuesday night.

Here’s a brief peek at how they are choosing to characterize the deplorable state of our nation. (Emphasis added)

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White supremacists and other far-right extremists have killed far more people since Sept. 11, 2001, than any other category of domestic extremist. The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism has reported that 71 percent of the extremist-related fatalities in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of the far right or white-supremacist movements. Islamic extremists were responsible for just 26 percent.,,

These statistics belie the strident rhetoric around “foreign-born” terrorists that the Trump administration has used to drive its anti-immigration agenda. They also raise questions about the United States’ counterterrorism strategy, which for nearly two decades has been focused almost exclusively on American and foreign-born jihadists, overshadowing right-wing extremism as a legitimate national-security threat.

We’ve been hearing plenty of these rumblings from progressive outlets this week. It’s almost as if there was some sort of… coordination going on. But clearly they haven’t bothered to double check the work of the various Trump critics hoping to capitalize on this theme. If they had, they’d know that the vast majority of domestic incidents of mass shootings and other attacks have no clearly identifiable political or religious motive associated with them.

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