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Behind the Aegis

(53,963 posts) Thu Jan 24, 2019, 03:41 AM Jan 2019

Report: White Supremacists Lead Nation In Domestic Terrorism

Vanilla ISIS: In the U.S., white supremacists were responsible for more than 70% of the domestic terror killings in the last decade.

According to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, “the number of white supremacist murders in the United States more than doubled in 2017 compared to the previous year.”

While NewsWeek notes that white supremacists in 2017 were responsible for “one of the deadliest years for extremist violence in almost half a century.”

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Report: White Supremacists Lead Nation In Domestic Terrorism (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jan 2019 OP

Yup. This is what happens when you willfully ignore the elephant in the room. herding cats Jan 2019 #1

I don't understand how JustAnotherGen Jan 2019 #5

In my opinion... Behind the Aegis Jan 2019 #6

The stinking "elephant in the room" has generous support from the evil empire* Achilleaze Jan 2019 #7

Does Dirty Donny Junior suffer from republican Castration Complex *(rCC)? Achilleaze Jan 2019 #8

K&R Solly Mack Jan 2019 #2

with the leader in the white house JI7 Jan 2019 #3

Trump duforsure Jan 2019 #4

Looks like another one slaughtered folks at that bank malaise Jan 2019 #9

herding cats

(19,565 posts)

1. Yup. This is what happens when you willfully ignore the elephant in the room.

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Original post)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 04:13 AM

Jan 2019

Great article, thanks for sharing.

I'll add the last bit in a snip. I feel it's deeply relevant.

Bottom line: Contrary to what Fox News wants you to believe, in the U.S., white supremacists are killing more people than Islamic extremists, Black Lives Matter activists, and Antifa enthusiasts combined.

Also, this fits here nicely. It's worth a read, too.

U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It.
For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism. In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a virulent movement has grown and metastasized.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/magazine/FBI-charlottesville-white-nationalism-far-right.html

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)

5. I don't understand how

Reply to herding cats (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 06:09 AM

Jan 2019

Law Enforcement couldn't see what was there all along.

Behind the Aegis

(53,963 posts)

6. In my opinion...

Reply to JustAnotherGen (Reply #5)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 06:20 AM

Jan 2019

They didn't see it because they are part of the problem. They are a huge part of the systemic disease of bigotry which infects our country. Mainly, again, just my opinion, because that profession tends to be very conservative. The other part of the equation is when it is the "majority" committing the crime, no one sees a pattern, but when it is a minority, then suddenly it applies to all members of that minority. Of course, this is what we see in everyday issues too, not just crime.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

7. The stinking "elephant in the room" has generous support from the evil empire*

Reply to herding cats (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 24, 2019, 06:21 AM

Jan 2019

* according to former President Ronald Reagan (R), the evil empire is none other than russia, which is now an intimate and cherished bedmate for Comrade Dirty Donny, the deceitful & ignoble republican Draft-dodger-in-Chief.