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| Why Does the Far Right Hold a Near-Monopoly on Political Violence?; Studies show that most people across the political spectrum abhor it. So what might explain the disparity? | |
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| dr345 | Jun 24 2017, 04:08 PM Post #1 |
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In the real world, since the end of the Vietnam era, the overwhelming majority of serious political violence—not counting vandalism or punches thrown at protests, but violence with lethal intent—has come from the fringes of the right. Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project says that “if you go back to the 1960s, you see all kinds of left-wing terrorism, but since then it’s been exceedingly rare.” She notes that eco- and animal-rights extremists caused extensive property damage in the 1990s, but didn’t target people. Meanwhile, says Beirich, “right-wing domestic terrorism has been common throughout that period, going back to groups like to The Order, which assassinated [liberal talk-radio host] Alan Berg [in 1984] right through to today.” Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, told NPR that “when you look at murders committed by domestic extremists in the United States of all types, right-wing extremists are responsible for about 74 percent of those murders.” The actual share is higher still, as violence committed by ultraconservative Islamic supremacists isn’t included in tallies of “right-wing extremism.” https://www.thenation.com/article/why-does-the-far-right-hold-a-near-monopoly-on-political-violence/ |
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| clone | Jun 24 2017, 09:23 PM Post #2 |
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![]() The author gets to this conclusion through 1. Cherry-picking anecdotes, some from over thirty years ago while ignoring all recent episodes of left-wing violence and 2. Relying on the Southern Poverty Law Center, the left-wing racialist activist group that inspired a gay leftist to take a gun into the headquarters of the Family Research Council, intent on committing mass murder and shoving Chik-Fil-A sammitches in their mouths. ... |
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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