Argument Tip: "Radical Islamic Terrorist" v. "White Supremacist" or "Alt-Right"

so while pondering over morning coffee and CNN/FB this morning, something hit me. this local media personality who is histrionic about the election and the boogeymen being created commented about Time giving Trump its person of the year award with this:

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Above is the explanation from TIME magazine for their choice. In my opinion, they really went wayyyyy too easy on both Trump and his most fervent supporters when writing this explanation.

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then CNN rolled a clip discussing Obama's comments about the war on terror yesterday and they did the progressive rhetoric tactic of ensuring that they mention that radicals are only a small % of the total muslim population...and it kind of hit me...progs are literally using the same arguments about "white supremacists" or the "AltRight" that they criticize when a discussion about Islamic terrorism arises. just think about it

-small, vocal minority group within a group? check
-does that group hold extremist views outside of normal society? yes
-is that group responsible for extremist behavior that the normal society would never engage in? yes
-are people using a broad brush for the entire group when focusing on the minority group? yes
-does using these labels by the general group strengthe the group identification and the resolve of the minority group? yes

now, obviously radical jihadists actually do kill people and the effects of the minority groups are very different, BUT, in terms of rhetoric, it's the exact same argument. so when you feel free to discuss this with your progressive friends, feel free to use this argument