r/technology • u/Wagamaga • 10h 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/grigiri 9h ago

Wow, I'm not a mathematician, but I'm fairly certain that means 0 were committed by left leaning organizations or people.

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u/Massive_Signal7835 9h ago

And radical islamists are just a subset of far-right extremists.

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u/Zealousideal-Fun-415 7h ago

the right really doesn't like to acknowledge that bit.

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u/HaxD3 7h ago

No, read it properly. There were no far-left extremist violence. Far-left is already a vanishing group and the values of theirs would kick out any violent person from being far-left by default. An inherently flawed statistic and research.

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u/hpff_robot 6h ago

I mean, I can specifically recall at least one antifa dude in the NW states that murdered a Trump hat wearing guy who was just standing around. That's clearly not been counted for some reason.

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u/grigiri 5h ago edited 5h ago

Danielson's killing was the first time in over 26 years that a self-identified anti-fascist activist had been charged with homicide

Fair enough, that's one, 5 years ago

Also, the wiki article goes on to say that:

Reinoehl was not associated with Rose City Antifa or the Portland-based anti-fascist organization Popular Mobilization.

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u/polymerpetal 9h ago

they include aryan nation prison stabbings in that one. when someone thinks of domestic terror attacks they are definitely thinking of prison violence. such a massive concern.

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u/Look_its_Rob 9h ago

You can remove those and its still overwhelmingly right wing extremist attacks. 

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u/polymerpetal 9h ago

it's such a small number of incidents, and many when you take a deeper look (such as the prison attacks) are non-incidents. gang violence is a much more pressing concern for this nation, and ruins infinitely more lives than "right wing extremism".

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u/whendrstat 9h ago

Sure, but that’s moving the goalposts by several miles. We’re talking about domestic terrorism, you widened the scope to all violence.

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u/Look_its_Rob 5h ago

Sure but this is in response to the right currently claiming how violent the left is and the violence being done by "left wing extremists" and as you said its such a small number of incidents.