07-16-2020, 02:07 PM
(07-16-2020, 01:46 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I assumed that you would have had information countered to my own if you spent the entire post trashing it.
That's a rather unkind assessment of my post. I questioned the relevance of the numbers, I didn't trash it.
Quote:I couldn't find a breakdown of anything outside of murder. I looked for antifa specifically and I couldn't find it, but as I said in my response to Matt, it may be delayed a few years as data tends to be.
Neither could I, as stated, which is interesting in itself. Why is there tracking of far right extremists but not the violence of far left extremists? Maybe a lack of funding? We all know that far left violence is a thing, and not exactly a rare occurrence. So why would there be a lack of research into the problem?
Quote:And, no one should like any of the violence that occurs, but my point was asking whether you had reason to believe they are as much of a threat as right wing extremists or if it was just personal, as it appears to be in the leaks.
That's a fair question to ask of the Trump administration. It may be caused by the imbalance of attention in regards to far right and left violence as illustrated above. I don't know. I do know that Antifa, or those that fit under its umbrella, are very comfortable with the use of violence and engage in it on a not infrequent basis.
