DHS dog whistling to it's nazi base?

[skinnay 0]

Saw this come up in my news feed and immediately thought this was just a BS coincidence. DHS releases a memo styled pretty closely to a "14-words" nazi slogan:

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/twitter-explodes-after-homeland-security-headline-appears-to-mimic-14-words-neo-nazi-slogan/

A pretty understandable coincidence, but the last line of the memo is pretty hard to ignore:

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On average, out of 88 claims that pass the credible fear screening, fewer than 13 will ultimately result in a grant of asylum.

13/88 is a pretty strange fraction to use.. I can't think of any reason a person could arrive at those numbers without specifically wanting to use the number 88. What do you think?

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skinnay

Saw this come up in my news feed and immediately thought this was just a BS coincidence. DHS releases a memo styled pretty closely to a "14-words" nazi slogan:

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/twitter-explodes-after-homeland-security-headline-appears-to-mimic-14-words-neo-nazi-slogan/

A pretty understandable coincidence, but the last line of the memo is pretty hard to ignore:

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On average, out of 88 claims that pass the credible fear screening, fewer than 13 will ultimately result in a grant of asylum.

13/88 is a pretty strange fraction to use.. I can't think of any reason a person could arrive at those numbers without specifically wanting to use the number 88. What do you think?

Stephen Miller has to do something for his paycheck.

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Obama White House website: "We must secure our cyberspace to ensure that we can continue to grow the nation’s economy and protect our way of life."

Obama Black History Month proclamation: "Our responsibility as citizens is to address the inequalities and injustices that linger, and we must secure our birthright freedoms for all people."

Nancy Pelosi press release: "We must secure our borders and enforce our laws…"

Janet Napolitano: "we must guard against terrorism; we must secure our borders; we must enforce our immigration laws; we must improve our readiness for, response to, and recovery from disasters; and we must unify the Department so that we can even more effectively carry out our mission."

But yeah, "We must secure" can only mean one thing.

WTF? Someone actually thought the DHS would covertly attempt to hide a Nazi slogan in an open source and see if anyone would catch it? Man, liberals really need to get focused on big shit.

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Obama White House website: "We must secure our cyberspace to ensure that we can continue to grow the nation’s economy and protect our way of life."

Obama Black History Month proclamation: "Our responsibility as citizens is to address the inequalities and injustices that linger, and we must secure our birthright freedoms for all people."

Nancy Pelosi press release: "We must secure our borders and enforce our laws…"

Janet Napolitano: "we must guard against terrorism; we must secure our borders; we must enforce our immigration laws; we must improve our readiness for, response to, and recovery from disasters; and we must unify the Department so that we can even more effectively carry out our mission."

But yeah, "We must secure" can only mean one thing.

WTF? Someone actually thought the DHS would covertly attempt to hide a Nazi slogan in an open source and see if anyone would catch it? Man, liberals really need to get focused on big shit.

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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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[SkyDekker 1,465]

I think OP was speaking about the specific use of 88.

88 has a specific meaning for those familiar with nazi sympathizers.

Just like 81 has a specific meaning for those following motorcycle clubs.

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skinnay

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/twitter-explodes-after-homeland-security-headline-appears-to-mimic-14-words-neo-nazi-slogan/

A pretty understandable coincidence, but the last line of the memo is pretty hard to ignore:

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On average, out of 88 claims that pass the credible fear screening, fewer than 13 will ultimately result in a grant of asylum.

13/88 is a pretty strange fraction to use.. I can't think of any reason a person could arrive at those numbers without specifically wanting to use the number 88. What do you think?

Rates are nearly always provided as some flavor of x/(10^n). One wouldn't use other integers in the denominator in less those integers carry a special significance. For example, here, if they had received a total of 88 asylum requests and 13 were granted asylum, then 13/88 might be more appropriate than 14.8%. That's clearly not the case here, since 13 is used as an upper bound, not an exact count.

As some who works with data and data analysis as a primary component of my job, I'd say one is, at best, kidding themselves if they claim it's a coincidence. Lots of people have their heads stuck that deep in the sand these days, though.

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