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Oh no, I didn't mean it in a critical way. I was just hedging my agreement by acknowledging that it sounds a bit mad, but it does seem to be practically the onl

by samhw 5y ago

Oh no, I didn't mean it in a critical way. I was just hedging my agreement by acknowledging that it sounds a bit mad, but it does seem to be practically the only interpretation which actually coheres with the facts. My guess is that, like with most of these complex human system failures, it was a combination of inattention and mildly-ideologically-motivated disinterest (e.g. someone didn't really think white nationalists were as great a threat as Islamic terrorists &c, and so it didn't make its way from their desk to their superior's desk). Also I agree: we'll probably find out eventually, long after it's ceased to be of any interest. Like with MKULTRA, Tuskegee, the weirdness around the fact that UFOs[0] were/are actually taken semi-seriously at least by parts of the govt, etc. [0] Always worth emphasising that 'UFOs' != 'aliens', to be fair.

BoorishBears 5y ago
You're being way too charitable, it's because of race. If it's foreigners hammer down. Mostly white Americans on American soil? So called "patriots"? Well now let's slow down. Don't want to violate any rights. I mean even think about it for second, the Jan 6 conspirators have it in their mind they're doing what it takes for their country, formalities be damned. Sound like any other organizations you know?
- samhw 5y ago
  I suspect you're probably right about this. I'm not suggesting that the people in those positions are impassioned white supremacists or anything like that - they may well be liberals or even anti-racists, but still retaining an unconscious expectation that white people are less likely to commit violent crimes. (Which is statistically true, after all, albeit obviously not due to any intrinsic qualities of either group.)
  - BoorishBears 5y ago
    With few exceptions like people flying in on private jets hoping to grow their own causes, the Jan 6 protestors and people who identified with them were poorly educated whites from low-income backgrounds Poverty precipitates violent crime across skin colors: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J134v09n03_03?journalCode=wpov20 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J134v09n03_03?jo... The FBI definitely knew these were people liable to make good on their threats lol. - What your disturbingly often quoted factoid is mostly reflecting is that white people have a higher median income than blacks, which is no surprise in the country that destroyed black neighborhoods for basic infrastructure, denied them access to the economy during the greatest periods of growth it ever saw, denied them loans until that was made illegal... well in the 70s. The FBI knows better than that.

by samhw 5y ago

BoorishBears 5y ago

You're being way too charitable, it's because of race. If it's foreigners hammer down. Mostly white Americans on American soil? So called "patriots"? Well now let's slow down. Don't want to violate any rights. I mean even think about it for second, the Jan 6 conspirators have it in their mind they're doing what it takes for their country, formalities be damned. Sound like any other organizations you know?

samhw 5y ago
I suspect you're probably right about this. I'm not suggesting that the people in those positions are impassioned white supremacists or anything like that - they may well be liberals or even anti-racists, but still retaining an unconscious expectation that white people are less likely to commit violent crimes. (Which is statistically true, after all, albeit obviously not due to any intrinsic qualities of either group.)
- BoorishBears 5y ago
  With few exceptions like people flying in on private jets hoping to grow their own causes, the Jan 6 protestors and people who identified with them were poorly educated whites from low-income backgrounds Poverty precipitates violent crime across skin colors: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J134v09n03_03?journalCode=wpov20 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J134v09n03_03?jo... The FBI definitely knew these were people liable to make good on their threats lol. - What your disturbingly often quoted factoid is mostly reflecting is that white people have a higher median income than blacks, which is no surprise in the country that destroyed black neighborhoods for basic infrastructure, denied them access to the economy during the greatest periods of growth it ever saw, denied them loans until that was made illegal... well in the 70s. The FBI knows better than that.