"Incel" "Misogynists" "American Anti-Semites" "GamerGate" "Glowing Fed-operation "racist" group." "The mentally ill ex solider" "Right wing extremism terrorists"
Confirmed gang related homicides in 2022 were around 3,000 people. Even if you conglomerate all the right wing terrorist attacks between 2008 and 2016, The Nation Institute study, you come up with 79 deaths. Average that out to per-year, you get 9.875. (btw, 90 separate deaths came from Islamic terrorism. Bigger threat!)
0.3% of the yearly homocides are "XYZ-online-extremists" compared to gang homicides. Number gets even lower, in the thousandths range, if you actually do the entire homicide rate. ten-thousandths if you include suicides.
Honestly, I think the biggest mistake people make when dealing with these ideologues is believing that any of it comes from any kind of intellectual honesty or an intellectual thought process. It's feelings, all the way down.
It strikes me as absolutely insane that we have so much resistance to mandatory sentencing guidelines, three strike rules, re-education for certain types of people with noted criminal histories, etc, and yet these fucks are suggesting that shitposting on twitter should come with more consequences for your future than punching someone in the face.
Edit: fixed math. Was drunk.
It's not "feelings" in the sense that it's irrational as some people think. It's honestly the age old war of good vs. evil. Good people have their blinders on though and don't see the war for what it is. Good people still think all the people living among them in their society are also good people and it's just a disagreement between good people. When good people have disagreements, things like intellectual honestly matter so good people try to stick to intellectual honesty and then continue to act shocked and surprised when others do not stick to intellectual honesty. That is because these "others" are evil people. When dealing with evil people, you should not concern yourself with intellectual honesty because evil people will not concern themselves with intellectual honesty. Evil people will simply use your good qualities against you in order to oppress you. There is only one right response to evil and that is to eliminate it.
Yup. Academia was a conservative space of rigid logic and reason. A few firehose and dog bite pity parties later, and they caved and gave the left the keys to the academic space. Assuming they'd never do what was done to them, or worse.
Everything rapidly went to shit shortly afterwards.
Full circle, now we see de-platforming and denial of earned degrees for the conservatives.
It seems good people seem to think evil can be vanquished for good but it cannot. Evil requires good to be ever-vigilant against it. Evil broke the gates down the second good people decided they didn't need to guard them against evil any longer.
That does tend to assume that leftists actually give a fuck about the boogiemen they're fabricating/exaggerating.
Furthermore, we've clearly seen time and time again how often the "sins" they're projecting are precisely the things they are guilty of practicing themselves.
In reality, it's almost always about power, influence, and manipulation. And they bury any potential for honest discussion through lies and deceit.
The cult leaders know they're lying. The cult members actually believe it.
If I thought that police were murdering 10000 unarmed black men every year, like leftists do, I'd want to do something about it too.
Most of the left are decent people with good intentions, but they have absolutely no idea they've been conned. The problem exploded when liberals cast out any remaining conservatives/independents from tv/news in reaction to Trump, so now they have no exposure at all to anything that contradicts their cult leaders.
I don't give a flying fuck what their intentions are. Actions are what matter, and their actions have caused devastating harm to my country.
You have to understand a problem if you hope to fix it.
How do some kids get sucked into it and others don't? What are more effective ways to deprogram an NPC?
If you think they're just evil people and try to teach morality to them you'll get nowhere.
The gay commie agenda is their God. The only sin they recognize is going against their agenda.
Most of them don't even realize it because they have been conditioned into thinking supporting the agenda is what makes one a "good person".
I've met way too many people who fear everything they're told to fear. Even when rape is incredibly rare, every woman I know thinks for certain it will happen to them.
I nicknamed it the shark effect. Everyone is scared of sharks, but it's so rare that the first shark attack at a surfing competition happened a few years ago. Yet laws, bridges, and tons of resources are put in to stop these attacks. Then all of these resources are praised, even though the numbers never changed.
Its mostly word play, they redefine certain words like incel, hate, or extremism to easily associate them with their political opponents.
That depends on if that someone is a Nazi or not.