The biggest problem with guys like Andy and Zach is that they are upper middle class white guys, who rely on rich neocon white guys for information and opinions on minorities. The links they post, the opinions they share, are almost exclusively informed by rich white men who have absolutely no connection at all to or understanding of these communities.
And whether the MSM has its problems with manipulation and bias (it does), it gives a voice to the leaders of the African American community, to the leaders of the Muslim American community and so on... and those voices are of value and should be listened to and given far more weight when formulating opinions on those specific communities.
Instead, we have buffoons, thinking they know "the facts" because of some propaganda they read from a neocon think tank. It's gross. It's dishonest. And they should be utterly ashamed of themselves for being that gullible and disrespectful of these communities and the issues facing them.
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This article is a good one... on the problem of governments (both autocratic and democratic) becoming dependent on fear of terrorism to hold power and to gain in approval ratings...
http://www.middleeasteye.net/essays/how-terrorism-useful-our-governments-112174807
There's a study from HRW from a couple years ago that states a large number of terror plots post-9/11 by Muslims in America were
borderline entrapment, with FBI informants inciting people to act, who otherwise may never have done so.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/21/us-terrorism-prosecutions-often-illusion