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Arnold Kling's avatar

"The failure of authorities to deal with racist marches in support of Israel’s extinction has made organised and lone actor terrorist attacks more, not less, likely."

I was drawing the opposite inference from the rest of your essay. You seemed to be saying that the violent impulse originates with the individual, who then looks around for an ideology as a way to package his violent urges. If so, then the racist marches do not increase senseless violence on net, they just tend to channel it in particular directions.

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Simon Cooke's avatar

Was more the failure of authorities to act that provides the valorising of violence. But I take your point.

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