While Republicans decry left-wing violence (despite the fact that Trump's shooter was a conservative), remember that the right supports and commits acts of violence far more often than the left

Ragdoll X@lemmy.world · edit-2 4 months ago

While Republicans decry left-wing violence (despite the fact that Trump's shooter was a conservative), remember that the right supports and commits acts of violence far more often than the left

Ragdoll X@lemmy.world · edit-2 4 months ago

It does not, and in fact they didn’t even include all Jan. 6 rioters in the dataset, instead focusing only on those who had ties to extremist groups.

I actually make this same argument towards the end of my video, pointing out how right-wing violence is often institutionalized and so isn’t included in extremism databases (e.g. police brutality, the Israeli genocide), and yet despite all of these datasets being flawed and arguably incomplete, they still consistently find that violence is far more common on the right than on the left.

While Republicans decry left-wing violence (despite the fact that Trump's shooter was a conservative), remember that the right supports and commits acts of violence far more often than the left

While Republicans decry left-wing violence (despite the fact that Trump's shooter was a conservative), remember that the right supports and commits acts of violence far more often than the left

Left-wing and Right-wing Violence Are Not The Same - A Response to Philip DeFranco