I appreciated the clarity of the intro, and that it made it very clear what was in vs out of scope and how to situate this evidence in relation to other lines of evidence and the higher-level questions that are ultimately of interest
It seems quite weird—and probably misleading—to use the terms US right and US left for Republicans/Democrats who think political violence is sometimes justified?
“right” and “left” have widely understood meanings here. But what this is pointing to is just a specific subset of those things (well, a specific subset of Republicans/Democrats, which I guess is a separate & smaller label-category mismatch issue), and the subset presumably differs from the whole set in a way that’s directly relevant to the question at hand?
I don’t know what alternative short term I’d recommend, but one idea would just be to add anything to make it clear that this is specific jargon and not just the whole group. E.g., “US right PVSJ”
Thanks for this Michael, I think that’s a good point. I’ve changed those labels to ‘US radical right (see definition)’ and ‘US radical left (see definition)’. Not perfect, but less misleading.
I only read the intro and summary, but:
Seems like a useful resource!
I appreciated the clarity of the intro, and that it made it very clear what was in vs out of scope and how to situate this evidence in relation to other lines of evidence and the higher-level questions that are ultimately of interest
It seems quite weird—and probably misleading—to use the terms US right and US left for Republicans/Democrats who think political violence is sometimes justified?
“right” and “left” have widely understood meanings here. But what this is pointing to is just a specific subset of those things (well, a specific subset of Republicans/Democrats, which I guess is a separate & smaller label-category mismatch issue), and the subset presumably differs from the whole set in a way that’s directly relevant to the question at hand?
I don’t know what alternative short term I’d recommend, but one idea would just be to add anything to make it clear that this is specific jargon and not just the whole group. E.g., “US right PVSJ”
Thanks for this Michael, I think that’s a good point. I’ve changed those labels to ‘US radical right (see definition)’ and ‘US radical left (see definition)’. Not perfect, but less misleading.