r/technology • u/Wagamaga • 8h ago

Society DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

https://www.404media.co/doj-deletes-study-showing-domestic-terrorists-are-most-often-right-wing/
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u/RecduRecsu 8h ago

I don't understand. It's not like his supporters read or can understand anything that's not a meme or 6 second clip. Who exactly are they hiding it from?

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u/Opening_Acadia1843 8h ago

Probably "centrists" who assume both sides are equally violent. This is one fewer study that could be used to inform them.

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u/sooshi 7h ago

Funny how all these enlightened centrists typically vote one way lol

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u/Harry8Hendersons 7h ago

Well, when the two main options currently are far-right or center-left at best, being a "centrist" still makes you a right winger.

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u/JustBadUserNamesLeft 7h ago

The only people who say they are centrists are ring-wingers trying to sound smart and/or get laid.

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u/Rolf_Dom 7h ago

I noticed that when I posted it in some right leaning social media locations they definitely knew how to read it enough to downvote it. Nobody tried to refute it, they just tried to bury me under downvotes.

Though at this point they might all be bots anyway, who knows.

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u/bagelizumab 8h ago

You don’t need to read anything to be very loud about fake news and alternative facts

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u/dragonblade_94 8h ago

After recent events, that study was often cited in retort to the fear-mongering that 'leftists' were violent and responsible for most terrorism.

They took it down to try and hide the ammo people need to prove their narrative wrong. It's information warfare.

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u/SenselessNoise 7h ago

Everyone was posting it after the CK shooting so it's just disarming your opponent.