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...certain parts of social media? It seems for some that outrage is very selective.

Over the weekend, in a span of 24 hours, there were 6 mass shootings across the states of North Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, and Michigan.

Just curious, with the deaths of so many from gun violence in such a short period of time, where was the outrage from...

Jimmy Kimmel said, "Maybe most of all, I want to thank the people who don’t support my show and what I believe, but support my right to share those beliefs anyway."

Statement from Tylenol:

When one faction complains of malfeasance from the faction in “power” and then employs that same malfeasance to the extreme when they are in power they lose all credibility and prove their outrage was never about principles — it was only about power.

I'm a high school history teacher and college adjunct professor and this entire thread is what I love so much about my field! Y'all rock!

...dropped cautioned against making policy changes based on their study until a lot more studies could be done to see if they're actually right or not.

Trump blames Tylenol for autism. Science doesn't back him up President Trump and his deputies tied autism to acetaminophen use during pregnancy, presented a cancer drug as a possible treatment, and said the FDA would change labeling to reflect both claims. Ther...

One falsehood after another in this announcement. And please don't take my word for it. Look up each individual claim made for yourself. Heck, even the researchers involved in the one study he name-... www.npr.org/sections/sho...

ABC ends Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and his show will return Tuesday ABC will reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after suspending it due to his comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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...when they occur.

...compared to right-wing extremists, according to PIRUS and related datasets.

Islamist extremism shows similar levels of violence as right-wing extremists in some examples, but its number of incidents in the U.S. tends to be lower; globally, Islamist extremist acts tend to be more deadly...

...Right-wing extremism remains the ideology most associated with violence in the U.S. in recent years — in terms of frequency of plots, number of attacks, and lethality/homicides.

Left-wing extremism is significantly less likely, statistically, to produce violent extremist acts...

...most of these studies, both in number of incidents and in severity, when compared with right-wing or Islamist extremist acts. But some recent public discourse suggests perceptions of increase; hard data is still less strong.

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Bottom Line (Post-2018)

...always sharp.

** Islamist extremism in the U.S. sample**: Although it shows up in data, its frequency is relatively lower compared to right-wing extremism in recent years, especially in terms of plots and attacks within the U.S.

Left-wing extremism remains a small share in...

...acts may go under-reported or misattributed.

Definition issues: What counts as “violent extremist act” vs “plot” vs “attack” can vary. Also, distinguishing between extremists vs criminal/non-ideologically motivated violence is not...

...recent decades.

Far-left extremist homicides are much less frequent, and their incidence has declined relative to far-right over time.

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Limitations & Unresolved Questions

Data lags and reporting bias: Many datasets are slow to update, and some extremist...

...3. Ideologically Motivated Homicides (Far-Left vs Far-Right, 1990-2020)

A study of ideologically motivated homicides (i.e. killings tied to extremist ideology) shows that far-right extremists commit more of these homicides than far-left extremists in...

...committed about two-thirds of attacks/plots in 2019, and up to ~90% in the early part of 2020.

Religious extremism (e.g. Islamist) remains a concern, but in the U.S., right-wing extremist violence has been more frequent in number of plots and incidents...

...accounted for, and the pattern holds after controlling for these.

2. Trends in Terrorism & Violence Incidents since ~2019

Right-wing extremists continue to account for a large share of terrorist plots and attacks in the U.S. For example, a CSIS analysis found that far-right individuals...

...acts. In the U.S. sample, no statistically significant difference was found between right-wing and Islamist perpetrators in terms of likelihood to engage in violence.

Some control variables (age, education, prior criminal history, etc.) were...

...Extremists” (2022, using PIRUS and other datasets)

Left-wing radicals are much less likely to engage in violent extremist acts compared to right-wing radicals.

Right-wing and Islamist extremists had similar likelihood of committing violent...

...context matters: e.g. left-wing extremism was more common in certain decades (1960s-70s), whereas right-wing and Islamist extremism have become more common in more recent decades.

What Recent Research Finds

1. “A Comparison of Political Violence by Left-Wing, Right-Wing, and Islamist...

...conservatism vs liberalism.

The PIRUS dataset includes both violent and non-violent extremists, so “more likely to be violent” doesn’t say that all or most extremists in a group are violent—just that, controlling for various factors, the probability is higher.

The social and historical...

...extremists are less likely to commit violent extremist acts compared to right-wing extremists.

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Caveats

“Right-wing” vs “left-wing” in these studies refers to ideological milieu for fringe/extremist actors, not necessarily mainstream political...

...that comparative study:

Conservative-aligned ideologies (right-wing and Islamist) are more represented and more likely to engage in violent extremism compared to left-wing ideologies, at least in the U.S. sample coded in PIRUS over that time period.

Left-wing...

...motivated acts than right-wing radicals.

No significant difference in propensity for violence was found between Islamist extremists and right-wing extremists in the U.S. sample.

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What This Means

Putting that together, from the PIRUS data and...

...sample.

Left-wing extremists were about 23%.

Islamist extremists about 18%.

In terms of likelihood of being violent, the study found:

Left-wing radicals are markedly less likely to engage in violent ideologically...