Saturday, March 11, 2023

An Anti-Defamation League gets it wrong about left wing vs. right wing murderers

John Lott at the Crime Prevention Research Center has a new research piece "The Anti-Defamation League’s Absurd Claim that 100% of Domestic Extremist Murders were Committed by “Right-wing Extremists,” most murders were actually committed by people who should be classified as “Left-wing Extremists”

Here is the link.

Here is an excerpt.
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The Anti-Defamation League has a new report titled: “Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2022.” They claim that all the murderers of the 25 people murdered by extremists in 2022 were “right-wingers,” which they describe as white supremacists, anti-government extremists, QAnon extremists, and other right-wing extremists. Their report has been getting extensive uncritical news coverage. In fact, most of these murders were committed by either an environmentalist or a nonbinary “socialist.” Are those the views of “right-wingers”? Our data is available here.

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