There is literally no right-wing violence in the US. It's all left-wing violence.
I actually bore the trouble of reading the mentioned 'study' brief; here are the highlights from my perspective:
TL;DR: The report itself though appears as a neutral evaluation of the current state of terrorism in US, it extensively delves into right-wing terrorism specifically, the Globalnews article also near-exclusively focuses on right-wing terrorism.
However the original report does present some useful date, do read on if you are interested.
Here (csis.org)is the actual report titled: *The Escalating Terrorism Problem in the United States *
Based on a CSIS data set of terrorist incidents, the most significant threat likely comes from white supremacists, though anarchists and religious extremists inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda could present a potential threat as well.
This analysis makes several arguments. First, far-right terrorism has significantly outpaced terrorism from other types of perpetrators, including from far-left networks and individuals inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.
Right-wing extremists perpetrated two thirds of the attacks and plots in the United States in 2019 and over 90 percent between January 1 and May 8, 2020. One of the most concerning is the 2020 U.S. presidential election, before and after which extremists may resort to violence, depending on the outcome of the election. To evaluate the threat posed by terrorism, we compiled a data set of 893 incidents that occurred in the United States between January 1994 and May 8, 2020. These incidents included both attacks and foiled plots. We coded the ideology of the perpetrators into one of five categories: ethnonationalist, left-wing, religious, right-wing, and other All of the religious attacks and plots in the CSIS data set were committed by terrorists who ascribed to a Salafi-jihadist ideology. Between 1994 and 2020, there were 893 terrorist attacks and plots in the United States.* Overall, right-wing terrorists perpetrated the majority—57 percent—of all attacks and plots during this period, compared to 25 percent committed by left-wing terrorists, 15 percent by religious terrorists, 3 percent by ethnonationalists, and 0.7 percent by terrorists with other motives.*
This is where the data hits me as it should: fatality
In analyzing fatalities from terrorist attacks, religious terrorism has killed the largest number of individuals—3,086 people—primarily due to the attacks on September 11, 2001, which caused 2,977 deaths. In comparison, right-wing terrorist attacks caused 335 deaths, left-wing attacks caused 22 deaths, and ethnonationalist terrorists caused 5 deaths.
The right-wing terror with their onslaught of attacks have committed 335 deaths so far, although second highest number of fatality in 25 years, the Jihadists have committed a total of 3,086 deaths apparently (2,097 at 9/11), so, right-wing terrorism accounts for about ~10% of total fatalities in 25 years of assessment compared to other forms of terrorism.
Here's some useless info: the word 'right-wing' was mentioned 42 times in the CSIS report, 'left-wing' mentioned 11 times, 'religious' 17 times, 'jihad*' 6 times (despite causing 90% of casualties this topic gets least amount of exposure).
As the report goes on to give specifics of right-wing extremism, most lethal ones were shootings, most of these attacks were foiled and resulted in no casualty or resulted in 2-3 victims at most.
Lastly to quote the same report:
Finally, the U.S. population needs to be more alert to disinformation, double-check their sources of information, and curb incendiary language.
We've been hearing from unnamed 'experts' for months now about the DOOM virus and a litany of other things. It's only been this year that I've noticed such a media reliance on this nebulous concept. I guess it's just programmed into people to internalize an 'expert' opinion without questioning. Super useful, clearly.
All I know from the article is that the Nazis might strike again as we replace the population with people from racist, homophobic shitholes and somehow get gay positive in doing so.
Won't anyone think of Anne Frank?
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