It's your typical high school sophomore that writes for these liberal rags...
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
(Excerpt) Read more at amp.theguardian.com ...
CSIS “centrist”?
You kiddin’ me?
anti-fascists yes, but what about fascists calling themselve antifa?
there is a guy in a burned out store, the young man in the suv and i believe several others.
This writer must have escaped from a lunatic asylum.
And headed straight to a news room.
Just more MSM targets that will get their comeuppance once the dance starts.
Ceausescu is a name these asshats should become intimately familiar with, and these people will not be in their twilight years when they pay the bill.
How many did anti-Facist Janet Reno kill?
It all depends on how we label groups, people and causes.
How many did anti-Facist Janet Reno kill?
It all depends on how we label groups, people and causes.
This one is almost certainly pinko on pinko murder:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/13/portland-antifa-activist-killed-hit-and-run
Have people forgotten about Connor Betts?
He killed 9 people and was definitely proantifa.
Utter BS.
I bet the nut in LV was antifa.
Here’s One:
Girl killed for saying All Lives Matter.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-jessica-doty-whitaker-shot-dead-indianapolis-all-lives-matter-20200713-jcm5oyjca5fz5kge4qtlhh7dnu-story.html
Recently heard Tea Party Members were/are terrorists.
“Really?’ Came my response “Feel free to list one, a single incident were a Tea Party Member hurt a soul. I’m going to smoke a pack of cigarettes while you invent an answer”
For those who have not seen it, here is the real history of Antifa they don’t want you to know:
https://www.ammoland.com/2020/06/antifa-osint-profile-violent-leftist-group-part-1/
https://www.ammoland.com/2017/06/antifa-profile-radical-left-anarchist-group-part-2/
https://www.ammoland.com/2017/07/antifa-osint-profile-leaders-weaknesses-exposed-part-3/
and the Trump campaign’s ad on the subject:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1278837925535535105
“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.”
Grade “A” BS????
Look at the source, The (Manchester UK) Guardian is to the LEFT of the NY Times, The Nation and Mother Jones.
It's your typical high school sophomore that writes for these liberal rags...
Going by what is in the media, any violence associated with Antifa is always the work of white nationalist infiltrators. That goes for BLM too.
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