Posted on 07/27/2020 3:19:47 PM PDT by Ennis85
Donald Trump has made warnings about the threat of antifa and “far-left fascism” a central part of his re-election campaign. But in reality leftwing attacks have left far fewer people dead than violence by rightwing extremists, new research indicates, and antifa activists have not been linked to a single murder in decades.
A new database of nearly 900 politically motivated attacks and plots in the United States since 1994 includes just one attack staged by an anti-fascist that led to fatalities. In that case, the single person killed was the perpetrator.
White supremacists or anti-police libertarians? What we know about the 'boogaloo' Over the same time period, American white supremacists and other rightwing extremists have carried out attacks that left at least 329 victims dead, according to the database.
More broadly, the database lists 21 victims killed in leftwing attacks since 2010 , and 117 victims of rightwing attacks in that same period – nearly six times as much. Attacks inspired by the Islamic State and similar jihadist groups, in contrast, killed 95 people since 2010, slightly fewer than rightwing extremists, according to the data set. More than half of these victims died in a a single attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in 2016.
The database was assembled by researchers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a centrist thinktank, and reviewed by the Guardian.
Its launch comes as Trump administration officials have echoed the president’s warnings of a violent “leftwing” revolution. “Groups of outside radicals and agitators are exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate, violent and extremist agenda,” the attorney general, William Barr, said amid nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd. A new justice department taskforce on violent anti-government extremists listed “antifa” as a major threat, while making no mention
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What “anti-fascists”?
Talk to the guy in the hospital with a seven-inch stab wound aimed at his kidney.
I seem to remember 5 Dallas police officers murdered by a BLM adherent a few years back.
Here’s what i say when i hear that BS:
That’s even more reason for the police to step up and arrest that rabid right wingers, not less. I get crickets in return.
They’re strategy is to not kill, it’s to be a nuisance until someone goes after them, then they play the victim.
Tim Pool and Andy Ngo know these assholes probably better than anyone, Antifa basically turned them both into Conservatives. Pool did a good video about this today that explains their tactics in detail...
>>117 victims of rightwing attacks in that same period<<
That is a bullshit number.
They’ve been linked to several in the last two months. Try again, propaganda press.
There were murders in Seattle.
At least make the propaganda somewhat believable.
Certain mass shooting get buried and never mentioned again. Connor Betts is one. That Bernie bro who shot up the GOP congressional baseball game is another. That Las Vegas shooting also, right down the memory hole never to be seen or heard of again (not that he was ANTIFA but it sure was fishy and the press and government both buried it really quickly).
I’m guessing their source is the Southern Poverty Law center. They make stuff up on both sides (the left gets favorable lies, the right gets scurrilous lies)
2 people killed in CHOP alone.
The stats they typically use for this split jihadist groups into multiple categories in order to make their death toll appear lower than "rightwing groups".
Lois Beckett, just as you would expect. A High schooler trying to act like a Marxist Adult.
https://mobile.twitter.com/loisbeckett?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Yes, but how many have died at the hands of “marxists/progressives”, which are synonymous with “antifa”?
Marxists/progressives are only left of fascists because they don’t believe in private property...everything else is the same. Fascists will let you own property if you agree to them controlling it.
Good one!
how about this story: won’t hear this in the MSM
“Murder of black Trump supporter Bernell Trammell spurs call for federal investigation”
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