Two factors combine to make ADL's figure misleading. First, it counts any violent crime by a 'far-right' figure as an 'extremist killing'. A member of a prison gang kills his wife for cheating on him? ADL counts it as an 'extremist killing'.
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Second, members of white prison gangs are counted as far-right/white-supremacist. This sounds obvious on a first pass, right? But most American prison gangs are race-segregated. A murderer from the Latin Kings or Folk Nation isn't going to show up on ADL's report.
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White prison gangs use Nazi/racist iconography because that's how you demonstrate that you're white and dangerous in the US. They have nothing to do with Richard Spencer, skulls just look cool.
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Footnote: What I'm calling 'extremist killing' is called "extremist-related murder" in the report, I was condensing for space reasons. Original report here:https://www.adl.org/resources/reports/murder-and-extremism-in-the-united-states-in-2017 …
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What possible incentive could the ADL have to exaggerate here?!
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The ADL report is less bad than the takeaway all the bluechecks got from it. But that's part of the game, I guess.
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Apparently the ADL press released helped to stoke the fire. Though of course members of the media each have joint and several liability for not doing their jobs.
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Yeah, distill away the hedging and you get something much worse. Figure 3 in part 2 of the report (source of the 71%) is so much worse than the rest, so of course that's what everyone lifted.
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Starting at 2008 is nonsense. Look up "Background Report Ideological Motivations of Terrorism in the United States, 1970-2016" by UMD. Immediately before 2008 most attacks were left wing or eco terrorists. Muslims are still #1 overall even ignoring 9/11, which of course they do
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The most blatant example of that was the New America study that started counting on Sept. 12, 2001.
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I might buy it if it was done by like, the Amish, but it wasn't an outlier. It follows an established trend.
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@HughBriss3@NYTmag hip boots on -wading into 71% horseshit w pitchfork -glad these statisticians aren't responsible for my finances -
Lol. Was it SPLC or ADL that basically got downgraded as a reliable source by FBI awhile back
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