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- NYT columnist Paul Krugman was widely lambasted on Twitter after suggesting that 9/11 did not lead to a 'mass outbreak' of anti-Muslim sentiments or violence.
- There was a spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes after 9/11 and the US invaded two majority Muslim countries, launching a global war on terror that's killed hundreds of thousands of people.
- In short, Krugman's tweets were ahistorical.
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Nobel Laureate economist Paul Krugman rejected the threat of inflation getting out of control - like it did in the 1970s - as a result of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic-relief bill.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman was excoriated online after a series of tweets in which he suggested that the 9/11 terror attacks did not lead to a 'mass outbreak' of Islamophobia or violence.
'Overall, Americans took 9/11 pretty calmly. Notably, there wasn't a mass outbreak of anti-Muslim sentiment and violence, which could all too easily have happened. And while GW Bush was a terrible president, to his credit he tried to calm prejudice, not feed it,' Krugman tweeted on Friday, the 19th anniversary of the attacks.
Twitter users quickly pointed out that Krugman's views on 9/11 were ahistorical, ripping into the New York Times columnist.
—Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 11, 2020
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—Shaker Samman (@ShakerSamman) September 11, 2020
—Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) September 11, 2020
—David Sirota (@davidsirota) September 11, 2020
—Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) September 11, 2020
—Megha Mohan (@meghamohan) September 11, 2020
The attacks ushered in a wave of anti-Muslim sentiments, fostering a spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes. And 15 years after 9/11, Americans elected a president who called for banning all Muslims from the US.
The US also invaded Afghanistan within a month of the attacks, launching the longest war in US history (and it's not over yet). Deymed driver download. The US then invaded Iraq in 2003 (US troops are also still there), which was ultimately disastrous and helped foster the rise of ISIS.
The US has conducted counterterrorism operations in 80 countries, according to Brown University's Costs of War project, and America's 'global war on terror' has displaced at least 37 million people and killed over 800,000. The federal price tag for the so-called war on terror stands at $6.4 trillion, and though Osama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi are both dead, neither al Qaeda nor ISIS have been totally defeated.
People were tortured by the US government after 9/11, and held indefinitely without being charged with a crime at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The US government also engaged in the mass surveillance of its own citizens.
In short, Krugman's take on the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks does not hold up (at all).
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The Social Media space for Economists on Twitter reveals an interesting Bubble around Paul Krugman. (Please note: There is an important – and amusing – update at the bottom of this posting.)
1- Many followers
Among the top 20 economists on Twitter, it appears that Paul Krugman is the most important, by rank of followers.
2- Tweets infrequently
When you look more closely, Krugman’s account really only Tweets his columns.
3- Follows few others
His account is hardly following anyone.
4- Almost never engages in conversation
Krugman has almost no conversations with those whom he is following
5- Very few people retweet
Perhaps because of the infrequency and predictable nature of his Tweets (always about his column), Krugman gets very few re-Tweets.
5- The Krugman Bubble
If you add up the number of people who read the Tweets and re-Tweets of the top economists, it turns out that Krugman is NOT the top economist on Twitter. In fact, measured by reach, he was the 5th largest.
Please note: This data is a couple months old, so may not present a current picture of Twittering economists.
I don’t think Krugman needs to worry very much. He does have a column in The New York Times that is read by more than a few people. The main point of this exercise is to show that just looking at raw numbers of followers can be misleading with Twitter.
UPDATE: Krugman recently wrote in his blog that someone had stolen his Twitter identity. That would explain why someone who enjoys interacting so much in one Social Media (his blog) did nothing on his Twitter account. It is also interesting to see how big a simple repeater account of a well-known person can grow in Twitter.
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