I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014)

Re:I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014) by deogeo on Friday June 14, 2019 @01:19PM (#20184712)

> A couple nazis have been punched and antifa got out of hand in Berkeley once

According to [1], while there are 4x as many US domestic far-right terror attacks as Islamic ones, the death tolls (excluding 9/11) are about the same. But only 1.1% of the US is Muslim.

Of course it's not really accurate to call Islamic terrorists far-left - I don't think their ideals fit with the rest of the left. But the total death toll of terrorism in the US is negligible [2], so to allow one's opinions to be directed by who does the most terrorism is the ultimate tail-wagging-the-dog.

[1] https://www.politifact.com/california/article/2017/aug/31/wh...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die...

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Re:I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014) by UnFleshedOne on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:28AM (#20203919)

I'd say islamic terrorism should be counted as far right -- theocracy is definitely not a left thing. It is just a different branch of far-right than christian one.

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