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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsRevisiting That DHS Report on Right Wing Extremism
By Ed Brayton
The last couple months have offered one of the most absurd displays of hysterical overreaction I've seen since Jerry Falwell declared Tinky Winky to be gay. I am speaking, of course, of the reaction of mainstream Republicans and the conservative media to a report on the growing dangers of right wing extremism by the Department of Homeland Security.
Did anyone react this way a mere ten weeks earlier when the DHS put out a virtually identical report on left wing extremism? We didn't hear liberals throwing a fit about that report and claiming that the government was out to destroy its political enemies or deliberately conflating mainstream liberals with violent radicals.
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