You're tying to equivocate throwing a milkshake at a politician with actual violence.
>https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/apr/03...
Um. You do realize that politifact article ends with "reported incidents are going up, total incidents are going down", right?
Here:
> Analyses of the National Crime Victimization Survey indicated that the majority of crime victimizations were not reported to the police from 2009 to 2014. Reported victimizations have picked up, and unreported incidents have went down since 2015, after a significant drop in both categories in 2014.
And their "Share The Facts" summary: "Only for reported crimes"
Finally, throwing milkshakes, just like throwing rotten fruit, is violence - mild violence, but still a very different thing than speech.
It's not limited to milkshakes. Lets apply some symmetry, say that the hateful rhetoric from the left has fanned Islamic attacks [1], or is what caused two black teens pouring gasoline on a white 13-year old, saying "This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy." as they set him on fire [2].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20184712
[2] https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teenagers-poured-g...
Who are you including? Socialist guerrillas in Latin America? Islamists?
I went searching and looked into where this idea of mine came from. My statement is a little out of date, stemming from 2017 so I'll retract it partially. If you look at this Washington Post article, and scroll down to the bar chart, for 2016 amd 2017 you'll see 11 killings by the right wing extremists and 16 killings by the left wing extremists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-the-united-states...
However, you'll note that the number isn't zero. It's just that the mainstream media is very left biased, and engages in the kind of "not technically censorship" suppression of information typical of the West, as called out by Noam Chomsky in Manufacturing Consent. Note how effective that style of soft suppression was in preventing your awareness of those killings.
It did remind me of the congressional baseball game shooter, who as far as I remember, didn't kill anyone (though not for lack of trying). That was stacked against several more successful mass murder attempts from right wingers.
What we should be concerned about, is how the dishonesty and bias distorts the information available to the public, and destroys civic discourse.
I still think antifa is blown out of proportion for propaganda purposes