There have also been plenty of violent demonstration by left wing groups, so much so that a BBC reporter had to have a bodyguard at the Labour conference.
Finally, anti-semitism seems to be as much a thing on the left as the extreme right these days, as shown by the anti-Semitism at the Labour conference.
In the UK perhaps.
The most recent attempt on a US Congressman's life:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh...
On May 22, 2017, Hodgkinson wrote "Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co." above his repost of a Change.org petition demanding "the legal removal" of Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for "treason". He belonged to numerous politically-oriented Facebook groups, including those named "Terminate the Republican Party," "The Road To Hell Is Paved With Republicans," and "Donald Trump is not my President."
When the media normalizes that "punching Nazis" is A-OK, this violence from very unhinged, disturbed individuals is the result.
Most "lone wolf" mass shooters are on the far right; we've seen far right activists shooting into crowds of demonstrators, or driving vehicles into crowds of demonstrators.
For all the talk of "punching Nazis" it's not the left wing who are perpetrating violence in the US.
The Times They Are A-changin':
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/01/antifa-charlottesvi...
> Most "lone wolf" mass shooters are on the far right;
The former deadliest shooter, Omar Mateen was a registered Democrat.
> it's not the left wing who are perpetrating violence in the US.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/01/...
Is BLM a right-wing group? What's more astonishing here is that the media is A-OK with left-wing violence. They try to portray them as some kind of freedom fighters.
This often comes up in these discussions. You need to realise that the far-right spawns much more violence (against individuals; against groups; against the state) than the far left.
In the UK we recently saw an MP being murdered by a far right extremist; we've seen an increase in racially motivated violence against Muslims and Jews; we've seen small but violent demonstrations by far right organisations.
This kind of stuff just isn't happening from the far left.