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2/ When researchers looked at who believed a shadow state had stolen the election and was also willing to become violent, independent of political ID, one of the strongest predictors was a belief in the Great Replacement Theory. pic.twitter.com/lVFVdrD1RK
— E. Rosalie (@NovelSci) November 17, 2021
4/ Studies on the insurrectionists controlled for various factors: Party ID, income, location, ethnicity, age, ideology, even proximity to DC. Across all studies, Great Replacement Ideology was the strongest predictor. pic.twitter.com/CVAvnGFReg
— E. Rosalie (@NovelSci) November 17, 2021
6/ The anime did not have to be the murder of AOC. https://t.co/eaZxczrMl9
What sort of people might someone hope to attract with this sort of outreach? It was a depiction of killing a minority woman made by a champion of a dangerous conspiracy theory.— E. Rosalie (@NovelSci) November 17, 2021
8/ Maybe this sounds too far-fetched, but just yesterday, Fox News broadcast this “fringe” idea to a massive audience. Their audience is the same one that has had its perception of extremist threats skewed in the extreme. pic.twitter.com/wbohRBQNd7
— E. Rosalie (@NovelSci) November 17, 2021
10/ When we did take appropriate action in response to national astroturfs and agitprop leading to threats of violence against school boards recently, we saw that effort politicized and misrepresented. https://t.co/qkGdyEXjYl
— E. Rosalie (@NovelSci) November 17, 2021
12/ What else creates the perception of a threat? A border crisis, perhaps? https://t.co/RYgpC16W7U
— E. Rosalie (@NovelSci) November 17, 2021
14/ Vaccine mandates are as old as the US itself, but if you don’t know that and instead you hear the messages you can read here, well, you might be very afraid/angry. https://t.co/iOa97IP36p
— E. Rosalie (@NovelSci) November 17, 2021
15/ That’s a lot of threats stacking up in the eyes of a specific audience, and we should expect that people who feel threatened may eventually respond to that perceived threat. pic.twitter.com/hM26tF6jfy
— E. Rosalie (@NovelSci) November 17, 2021
If you think of who is susceptible (to) extremist ideology, people tend to think it’s people who don’t have much education. That’s not the case at all. It tends to be more middle class and upper class. Those who have spent more time educating themselves tend to think they know better than other people.”