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At no point in this
absolute fucking disaster of an article do they ever deign to point you towards this list of 329 murders. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and pored over the entire thing, and even managed to make it past sentences like,
"Ngo spoke of the long history of antifa organizing in Portland, but unsurprisingly omitted the most obvious reason for it: In recent years, Portland has become an epicenter of far-right violence, to which anti-fascist action is a rightful response." Without having my brain melt out of my ears, but at no point in this article do they ever attempt to clarify this statement.
The Intercept has asserted,
without evidence wink wink, that 329 murders have been carried out by right-wing extremists since 1994.
It's actually a little irritating to find the
CSIS study because
most articles written about it won't directly link you to the fucking study. They might link you to a
summary, they might mention the CSIS by name, but none of them bothered to link you to the
actual study because God forbid someone read this shit for themselves. They might also notice that the study
immediately gives them a body count, equates 25% of the terrorism in this country to Left-leaning politics, and defines Antifa as
particularly violent, if not necessarily as fatal, though that's probably because Antifa is filled with noodle-armed limp-dicks, but that's not a statement you're like to see in any official capacity.
I'm not prone to taking this study at its word, though, because according to the graph that it supplies, there have been
zero instances of Left-wing or ethnonationalist-related terrorism in 2020. That sounds extraordinarily dubious to me, considering that Left-wing terrorists are actively burning their own cities, and I'm
reasonably certain that an enthonationalist has done something stupid, somewhere, this year.
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This study also measures everything as a single incident, no matter how large it might be. A right-wing extremist threatening to shoot a black man is counted as one incident. The September 11th attacks are also counted as a single incident. Technically correct, but that might be a
bit misleading on a graph.
I was attempting to figure out what
exactly they're defining as "right-wing" because I've seen plenty of lists that equate a sovereign citizen stabbing someone as a "right-wing terror attack", but when you try to see their reference for citation #9, which ought to send you to the data they compiled, it just says,
"The data set includes incidents that occurred in the 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico"
Thanks, very helpful.
So,
fuck it, we'll go back to the summary to see where their data is being pulled from:
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Okay, so it's being
monsterously skewn by data from the Anti-Defamation League and by exclusively sourcing
heavily left-leaning publications. See? That's all that you had to tell me, because now I know that your data set has effectively been
poisoned and I don't need to waste my time referencing any of the other things in the list. God, why do journalists have to make this shit so irritating?
