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You've probably seen the statistic based on a study by the Anti-Defamation League that about 70% of "extremist killings" over the past 10 years have been committed by "right-wing extremists," a category that includes white nationalists, Aryan prison-gang members, and anti-government extremists.
That number, with similar phrasing, has been cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, the Atlantic, and Insider, to name just a few outlets.
The specific wording of the stat drives home the idea that ultrarightists represent the greatest threat of domestic political- or identity-based violence in the US, dwarfing the violence committed by left-wing, anarchist, and Islamic extremists combined.
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The group acknowledges that it "tracks both ideological and non-ideological killings by extremists," because it argues to ignore non-ideological killings would be to discount "an inherent and integral part of the dangers they pose to society."
But it's the topline catchall numbers of extremist incidents and extremist murders that the group promotes, and which most often end up being repeated in the press without the important distinction regarding possible motives.
And It is working. Just yesterday on WNYC we heard that Asians were afraid to send their kids to in person school because of the hate crimes against them by all the ultra right wing klansmen who live in New York City.
I don't know what happened to our society, but it shows how powerful media is.
These beating attacks based on race is the problem, not ignorant comments
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It seem like ultraright-wing violence in the US is more common than it actually is
Response: Opinion
Having subsided in predominantly right-wing neighborhoods I totally disagree.
I feel they are the safest neighborhoods because of the concentrated
and combined efforts of all its residents to ensure safey and peace.
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