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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
16h ago“When does a strong belief cross the line into something we should call extremism, and who gets to decide?”
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How do you fight extremism without making it worse?: Civil-liberties resilience
The machine outlives the threat Every counter-extremism power built in a panic is still on the books a generation later, pointed somewhere its authors never named. The apparatus stood up to watch one set of extremists does not retire when the threat fades.... How do you fight extremism without making it worse?: Deradicalization practitioners
Nobody gets argued out I have sat across from a neo-Nazi and a former jihadist, and I can tell you what does not work: facts. You cannot debate someone out of an identity, because the belief is load-bearing — it holds up his self, his friends, his sense of mattering.... How do you fight extremism without making it worse?: Security-first
The van that doesn’t wait for your theory A plot does not pause while you address root causes. In 2016 a man drove a truck into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice and killed 86 people; the warning signs were there, the disruption wasn’t.... How do you fight extremism without making it worse?: The Story
The mentor or the handcuffs In the Danish city of Aarhus, when young men came back from Syria, the police did something that scandalized half of Europe: instead of arresting them, they assigned them mentors — help with school, a job, a flat, a person who would keep showing up.... - AndreaT...
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