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All we need to do is look at the numbers of deaths which occurred in the incidents we are talking about. “In the deadliest attack on Latinos in American histor
by adamsea 6y ago
All we need to do is look at the numbers of deaths which occurred in the incidents we are talking about.
“In the deadliest attack on Latinos in American history, a 21-year-old white supremacist last August killed 22 people and injured 24 others at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. In April, another white extremist went on a shooting rampage at a synagogue in Poway, California, killing one worshipper and injuring three others.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.voanews.com/usa/2019-deadliest-year-domestic-terrorism-says-fbi-director%3Famp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.voanews.com/usa/2019-deadli...
And so on.
Dylan Roof in 2015 murdering nine people who were at church, because they were black.
The right-wing crazy guy who murdered Heather Hayer by driving into a crowd at a protest against neo-nazis in Charlottesville in 2017
And so on.
To compare terrible attacks like that to the riots (separate from the peaceful protests) which have occurred, and destroyed property, but not killed people, is ludicrous.
And let’s not forget that people didn’t go into the streets for the fun of it - no one was doing anything until the police killed a man in cold blood, because he was black, exemplifying the racist violence (and domestic terrorism - look at the 1921 Tulsa race massacre - a mob killed at least 36, sent at least 800 to the hospital, and burnt a part of the city to the ground, leaving ten thousand black people homeless - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre) which black folks have sadly faced for a long, long time now.
And which people are sick and tired of tolerating.
Certainly any ideology can produce violent extremists. But conservatism and the right in the US currently has a white-supremacist/far-right extremist problem which the left does not have right now.
Currently, its the far right and white supremacist ideologies which are producing domestic terrorists that attempt (or sadly, succeed) to kill people.
Currently, there’s not a US equivalent of the Baader-Meinhoff gang (german left wing domestic terrorists from the 60s/70s) of which I’m aware.
So I hope the FBI is spending the bulk of their domestic terrorism resources combating the groups which at this time pose the greatest threat to the lives of American citizens.
- zaroth 6y agoIf body count of individual actions was the only metric, I would totally agree with you. I think current events have the potential to spiral into something much more destabilizing and ultimately destructive on a cumulative basis, even if there are not headline grabbing individual mass shootings.
- adamsea 6y ago> If body count of individual actions was the only metric, I would totally agree with you. You never specified your other metrics ...
- PascLeRasc 6y agoSure, and we're saying that white supremacy and police murders have already destabilized into something destructive. We've arrived.