The ADL has unfortunately strayed far from their task of fighting anti-antisemitism.
They've fallen to O'Sullivans First Law:“All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.”
Indeed the ADL has departed drastically form their core purpose and The Anti-Defamation League Is Now a Tool of the Anti-Semitic Left.
The ADL just released a report claiming the majority of political violence is from the Right Wing.
Of course the NY Times uncritically ate it up: The Right's Violence Problem.
In reading the ADL report, it sadly has a rather driven agenda and has at least one rather glaring and blatant error on their executive summary page and throughout their report that makes their stats rather suspect.
"Most of the murders (26 of 29) were committed by right-wing extremists, which is usually the case. However, two killings were committed by Black nationalists and one by an Islamist extremist—the latter being the first such killing since 2018."
Considering 6 people were murdered by the Black Nationalist Extremist at Waukeesha in 2021, and yet they apparently decide to not even count that attack in their totals at all.
How many more murders did they exclude to get to their desired result?
Then, you gotta wonder how they played with the numbers they had left, to shift them right so to speak, in order to decide what was and was not an "extremist murder". So how did they massage the numbers to get where they wanted to go? We don't know.
Not to mention how they decide to classify a particular murdered as right or left wing can also be suspect.
Further if you take the time to read the report, it appears that some of what they decided were "extremist murders seem to be rather hinky and without any linkage to an ideological basis. In one case they listed, they decide that a white nutcase who killed a white husband and white wife with no known ideological reason for the murders, is counted as an extremist murder. Imagine counting every murder by a Black BLM supporter of a Black person as an extremist murder, the count would likely shift - a lot.
In short, it is not a useful nor an unbiased study at all.
Violence from the extremist Right is a problem, as is violence from the extremist Left - which has been growing by leaps and bounds and did about a Billion in damage to our cities recently.
Here the ADL is deliberately downplaying and ignoring, if not outright covering up Leftist violence for political points.
It also gets interesting in terms of classification as the recent Buffalo shooter self-identified
in his nutso manifesto as Left-Wing but is being classified as Right-Wing by
the left. So did a Left-Wing extremist just kill 10 people in Buffalo? How will it be treated in their next report?
It's too bad we can't get an honest and unbiased study on the problem, as this surely isn't one.
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Ironically, I saw that ADL report yesterday on one the blogs on your blog roll.
Almost all Democrat arguments start with a false premise.
WTF? There were 20,000 murders last year and they are worried about 26? What about the other 19,000 odd? What is wrong with these people?
Chuck:
"What is wrong with these people?"
That's a rhetorical question??
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