Man, that garbage 71% statistic is getting everywhere. The ADL report specifically notes that non-'far-right' extremist killings are probably undercounted by their methodology. Furthermore, the definition of 'extremist killings' used is absurd and misleading.https://twitter.com/NYTmag/status/1058736230874181632 …
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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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Thank you for the time and effort you put into this for us. Do you happen to know just what the actual numbers are close to?
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Not a clue. You could probably back into a number by comparing crime rates between white, black and Latino prison gang members and using the ratios to estimate 'missing' left-wing gang violence. Alternately you could throw out the white gang crimes.
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