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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsADL Report: Right-Wingers Committed Every 2018 Extremist Murder In US
By Allegra Kirkland January 23, 2019 10:53 am
The Anti-Defamation Leagues annual report on extremist killings in the United States, released Wednesday, found that individuals linked to right-wing extremist movements committed every single extremist-related murder in the country in 2018.
Right-wing extremists killed 50 people last year, mostly with firearms, making them responsible for more deaths than in any year since 1995, according to the ADLs data.
The report focuses on incidents like the February mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, committed by a teenager who expressed sympathy towards white supremacist ideology; the massacre at Pittsburghs Tree of Life synagogue by an avowed anti-Semite; and the shooting spree at a Tallahassee yoga studio by a man bent on committing violence against women.
Guns were responsible for 42 of the 50 deaths documented by the ADL.
The white supremacist attack in Pittsburgh should serve as a wake-up call to everyone about the deadly consequences of hateful rhetoric, ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt said in a statement accompanying the reports release. Its time for our nations leaders to appropriately recognize the severity of the threat and to devote the necessary resources to address the scourge of right-wing extremism.
Right-wing extremists killed 50 people last year, mostly with firearms, making them responsible for more deaths than in any year since 1995, according to the ADLs data.
The report focuses on incidents like the February mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, committed by a teenager who expressed sympathy towards white supremacist ideology; the massacre at Pittsburghs Tree of Life synagogue by an avowed anti-Semite; and the shooting spree at a Tallahassee yoga studio by a man bent on committing violence against women.
Guns were responsible for 42 of the 50 deaths documented by the ADL.
The white supremacist attack in Pittsburgh should serve as a wake-up call to everyone about the deadly consequences of hateful rhetoric, ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt said in a statement accompanying the reports release. Its time for our nations leaders to appropriately recognize the severity of the threat and to devote the necessary resources to address the scourge of right-wing extremism.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/anti-defamation-league-report-right-wing-extremists-2018-murders
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ADL Report: Right-Wingers Committed Every 2018 Extremist Murder In US (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Jan 2019
OP
SHRED
(28,136 posts)1. Cue the M$M's "both sides" narrative
It's coming.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Right
The media facilitates Trump's destruction of democracy and this wave of right wing terror IMO.
I mean even as we speak they are white washing a white boy MAGA hat mob 24/7.
ck4829
(35,096 posts)4. "Well you see, the victims of the Atomwaffen Division just HAD to go and get murdered, so they bear
some of the blame here too."
TeamPooka
(24,296 posts)3. K&R
Gothmog
(145,894 posts)5. Who is surprised by this?
RWNJ are prone to violence