
Persuasion and the Prestige Paradox: Are High Status People More Likely to Lie?
https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/
Persuasion and the Prestige Paradox: Are High Status People More Likely to Lie?
https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/
Betar USA, the far-right pro-Israel group with connections in the #Trump administration, making it official by stating that "the real enemies of the nationalist state of Israel are the rootless cosmopolitan #progressive#Hollywood Jews."
Reinventing antisemitism from first principles.
These are the #ISIS of Judaism.
#JewishISIS#Extremism#Superman#Movie#Israel#Antisemitism#AntiPalestimian#BataarUSA#Israel#Palestine#USpol
Extremism “is fundamentally a local problem, magnified nationwide," says Dana Coester, founder of nonprofit newsroom 100 Days in Appalachia. “There’s more risk at the local level. You are accessible, you are visible, you are part of the community that you’re covering, and you don’t leave.” Columbia Journalism Review interviewed her and journalists from @TexasObserver, InvestigateWest, and more, about the threats local journalists face from far-right extremists.
#Journalism#LocalJournalism#Extremism#USNews#Media#MediaIndustry
👨 Misogyny is the ‘gateway drug’
As a researcher looking at digital extremism and gender-based violence, I’ve analyzed more than 100 manifestos written by people who carried out mass shootings, stabbings, vehicular attacks and other acts of ideologically, politically and religiously motivated violent extremism in Canada, the United States and beyond.
These attackers may not belong to formal terrorist organizations, but their writings reveal consistent ideological patterns. Among them, one stands out: misogyny.
#Extremism#Psychology#Hate#Misogyny#Violence#Internet#SocialMedia
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