The base rate issue is less persuasive. First, why is the base rate the key question? Plenty of significance to the absolute numbers
To be fair, the GBO report only counts incidents with fatalities. New dataset (it includes the Beltway sniper!) but same foundational issues
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That one's also problematic (middle school shooter, pedophile murders, etc) Counts white domestics but not honor killings, etc.
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Yep, absolutely. Same machine pushing the same message through the same orifices, different chunky bits.
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The part that really gets me is when they start talking about increasing violence against Muslims, and suddenly the GBO report vanishes.
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They have three anecdotes--the first probably doesn't count, and in the third two white guys died!
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Not a single 'Far-Right Violent Extremist' incident in the GBO report harmed a Muslim, as far as I can tell. Sikhs, yeah. Jews, yup.
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