ADL is claiming all extremist murders in 2022 were right wing groups and mostly white supremacists. seems to be correct except they include an incel murderer which i don't know i'd say was _primarily_ right wing.
@Moon Right-wing makes sense for politicians/activists/… but for incels… eh?
@lanodan there can be an overlap but by their own criteria if there are multiple ideologies they count the primary
@Moon @lanodan You can check what they count and there's always a bunch of crap in it

Like that year some muslism did a shooting at a gay club, it was filled under "right wing", including the Vegas shooting we still know nothing about I believe

A bunch of other entries were debatable too

The news ran with it "Right wing violence up 200%!!!!" it went from double digit... to staying double digit
@coolboymew @lanodan the actual count was 25 people, which is about as many murders as happen in two weeks in Chicago.
@lanodan @coolboymew biden went out of his way to declare that white supremacy was the number one extremist threat in the usa and a national security threat but even among right wing murders in the usa they mostly weren't being done by groups and the groups that did are nowhere near able to affect "national security". i don't expect any extremism to rank compared to normal crime in frequency but this just reinforces that our view of the main problems is highly distorted.
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@Moon @lanodan @coolboymew He literally listed right-libertarian symbols as "extremist symbols".

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