"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.
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.