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Which political views would those be? Most of the politically-incited violence of the past few years has been left-wing. From Antifa, to the Berkeley riots, to the BLM riots (and BLM-inspired cop executions in Houston), and the "Bernie-bro" attempted assassination.



It was Dallas, not Houston.

>Most of the politically-incited violence of the past few years has been left-wing.

Is this claim based on data or anecdotes?


From the WITS - https://imgur.com/a/nE1of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Incidents_Tracking_S...

If you know a good replacement, please let me know. That's worldwide data, but even using worldwide data, there just aren't that many violent Nazis out there.


This is going to take me a few minutes...

WITS was discontinued 5 years ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/theories-mean...

https://www.thenation.com/article/why-does-the-far-right-hol...

[warning, pdf] https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/MurderAndE...

[2015 study; warning, pdf] https://sites.duke.edu/tcths/files/2013/06/Kurzman_Schanzer_...

I'm actually quite certain that antifa has either been infiltrated by agent provocateurs or is populated by useful idiots. I say this as a life long Republican (until March '03).

Edit: Am I supposed to summarize these 4 articles in order to be considered adequate response to a wiki link of an org that was dissolved 5 years ago?




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