HeilFarter is really burnin now.
Donald Trump has made warnings about the threat of antifa and “
” a central part of his
. But in reality leftwing attacks have left far fewer people dead than violence by rightwing extremists, new research indicates, and antifa activists have not been linked to a single murder in decades.
A new database of
in the United States since 1994 includes just one attack staged by an anti-fascist that led to fatalities. In that case, the single person killed was the perpetrator.
Over the same time period, American white supremacists and other rightwing extremists have carried out attacks that left at least 329 victims dead, according to the database.
More broadly, the database lists 21 victims killed in leftwing attacks since 2010 , and 117 victims of rightwing attacks in that same period – nearly six times as much
. Attacks inspired by the Islamic State and similar jihadist groups, in contrast, killed 95 people since 2010, slightly fewer than rightwing extremists, according to the data set. More than half of these victims died in a a single attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in 2016.
Fact check: left-wing violence in the United States
A new database by the Center for Strategic and International studies analyzed nearly 900 politically motivated plots and attacks in the US
0
Victims killed in anti-fascist attacks since 1994
21
Victims killed in left-wing violence since 2010
95
Victims killed in jihadist attacks since 2010
117
Victims killed in right-wing violence since 2010
329
Victims killed in right-wing violence since 1994
Are you really that stupid?...This is a STUDY OF
