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Rachel Maddow on the Mainstreaming of Crackpot Conspiracy Theories by the Right Wing

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)4/25/2013 5:33:28 pm PDT

re: #92 stabby

What Alice Hoagland started to say but, seemed a bit too nervous to quite get out is that she seemed to be drawing a parallel between conspiracy theories and Islamist radicalization.

That when Tamerlan Tsarnaev went out on the internet and became radicalized, the sort of sites he was reading, the sorts of thought processes he was engaging in had some similarity to the crap that people like Alex Jones are pushing.

I tried to suggest the same, yesterday I think it was, and the response was Obdicut saying that my intuition “isn’t worth a cup of warm spit” and a touch of usual ding circus of LGF pcers.

There’s a parallel in that both are things that people can do on their own, but there’s not even just one way that people get into conspiracy theories, either. So you’re just kind of wrong again now, in a new and different way.