> Did the Weather Underground grow because of the Internet? Did left-wing communist terrorist grow because of the Internet?
You're inferring a causal connection here? Where's your evidence? Where's your evidence that left wing terrorism won't similarly grow?
You're making a lot of assumptions to conclude that a medium which allows all people to congregate with like-minded individuals, will only foment aggression among a specific sub-population. Terrorism on all sides waxes and wanes due to many environmental factors. Assuming the internet is a causal factor, then when those environmental factors tilt against left-wing agendas, left-wing terrorism will also increase again.
If the idea is to implement some measures to reduce all forms of terrorism and extremism, then the qualifiers are not appropriate in that context. In so far as some forms of terrorism may require measures that differ from those required by other forms, then qualifiers are appropriate. That isn't the case when you're asserting a mission statement or a larger social goal.
However, the data suggests that left and right wing people are not that different, cognitively. They each exhibit similar motivations to deny science, a similar propensity to believe fake news. They differ primarily in their moral foundations, and so their propensity to violence will only increase when the environment is unfavourable to those foundations.
> The left wanted to call ISIS simply "terrorism" because terrorism is terrorism is terrorism. But the right insisted that it be called "radical Islamic terrorism" because in the words of my family member "you have to call it what it is to defeat it".
Because ISIS is a radical Islamic terrorist group. They're not left-wing terrorists. If the subject of a conversation is a specific group, then qualifiers are appropriate.
You're inferring a causal connection here? Where's your evidence? Where's your evidence that left wing terrorism won't similarly grow?
You're making a lot of assumptions to conclude that a medium which allows all people to congregate with like-minded individuals, will only foment aggression among a specific sub-population. Terrorism on all sides waxes and wanes due to many environmental factors. Assuming the internet is a causal factor, then when those environmental factors tilt against left-wing agendas, left-wing terrorism will also increase again.
If the idea is to implement some measures to reduce all forms of terrorism and extremism, then the qualifiers are not appropriate in that context. In so far as some forms of terrorism may require measures that differ from those required by other forms, then qualifiers are appropriate. That isn't the case when you're asserting a mission statement or a larger social goal.
However, the data suggests that left and right wing people are not that different, cognitively. They each exhibit similar motivations to deny science, a similar propensity to believe fake news. They differ primarily in their moral foundations, and so their propensity to violence will only increase when the environment is unfavourable to those foundations.
> The left wanted to call ISIS simply "terrorism" because terrorism is terrorism is terrorism. But the right insisted that it be called "radical Islamic terrorism" because in the words of my family member "you have to call it what it is to defeat it".
Because ISIS is a radical Islamic terrorist group. They're not left-wing terrorists. If the subject of a conversation is a specific group, then qualifiers are appropriate.