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 weirdāand probably misleadingāto use the terms US right and US left for Republicans/āDemocrats who think political violence is sometimes justified?
ārightā and āleftā 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/āDemocrats, which I guess is a separate & smaller label-category mismatch issue), and the subset presumably differs from the whole set in a way thatās directly relevant to the question at hand?
I donāt know what alternative short term Iād 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., āUS right PVSJā
Thanks for this Michael, I think thatās a good point. Iāve changed those labels to āUS radical right (see definition)ā and āUS radical left (see definition)ā. 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 weirdāand probably misleadingāto use the terms US right and US left for Republicans/āDemocrats who think political violence is sometimes justified?
ārightā and āleftā 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/āDemocrats, which I guess is a separate & smaller label-category mismatch issue), and the subset presumably differs from the whole set in a way thatās directly relevant to the question at hand?
I donāt know what alternative short term Iād 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., āUS right PVSJā
Thanks for this Michael, I think thatās a good point. Iāve changed those labels to āUS radical right (see definition)ā and āUS radical left (see definition)ā. Not perfect, but less misleading.