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Debunking the decline deniers | Niall Gooch | The Critic Magazine

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Summary
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53% Informative

A strong impulse among self-consciously Sensible centrists is to downplay the seriousness of social or cultural problems.

Worried about rising street crime? Try watching Peaky Blinders , mate! Concerned by modern sexual culture? Er, actually, teens have always had sex! Think pop music is increasingly explicit and crude? The squares hated Elvis too, you reactionary idiot! They have to do this, because the alternative is that conservatives might have a point about something too monstrous to contemplate.

There is simply no good reason why the perpetrators of these atrocities should be in the country at all.

The centralised nature of Irish nationalist terrorism offered more potential for a coherent state response.

The diffuse nature of jihadist terrorism presents a bewildering array of targets.

The rampage attacks are traceable to specific policy decisions by political leaders.

VR Score

55

Informative language

55

Neutral language

18

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

57

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

possibly hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

medium-lived

External references

no external sources

Source diversity

no sources

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