A discussion recently on an OP about people getting beat up for wearing MAGA hats had a lot of comments that labeled partisan violence as being a left-only thing and that it happens all the time. I beg to differ. It isn’t a left-only thing, and it doesn’t happen all the time. Crazy knows no party. This was vehemently denied, so I thought I’d post some perspective.
- A mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, has reignited a nationwide conversation on white nationalism and right-wing violence.
- A January 2019 report shows all the extremist killings in the US in 2018 had links to right-wing extremism.
- The report’s findings are consistent with other fairly recent studies on extremism in the US, which have shown right-wing extremism and violence are on the rise.
- There were at least 50 extremist-related killings in 2018, according to the report, making it the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.
Every extremist killing in the US in 2018 had a link to a right-wing extremism, according to a January 2019 report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
The report zeroes in on incidents such as the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February 2018, and the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in October 2018.
There were at least 50 extremist-related killings in the US in 2018, according to the report, making it the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970.
https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1