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Greyhead

(151 posts) Sat Sep 20, 2025, 09:42 AM Sep 20

Left leaning terror plots since 2002 equal 6.4%

While right wing terror plots accounted for 75.6%

From NBC news
Right-wing ideologies have fueled more than 70% of all extremist attacks and domestic terror plots since 2002 in the U.S., according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Bar chart of counting the number of extremist attacks, domestic terror attacks and domestic terror plans that were influenced by ideologies since 2002. Right wing, white-supremacist ideologies fueled 385 incidents. Right-wing, anti-government ideologies were behind 148; Islamist: 135; Right-wing (other): 64, left-wing: 51.

Right wing (white supremacist)
385
Right wing (anti-government)
148
Islamist
135
Right wing (other)
64
Left wing
51
Other
5
Unknown
1
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/no-evidence-charlie-kirk-shooting-left-wing-groups-rcna232513

Robinson may of started to lean left(according to his mother), but he still had his right wing mentality, which was to use a gun.

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Left leaning terror plots since 2002 equal 6.4% (Original Post) Greyhead Sep 20 OP

What he was thinking at the time is irrelevant. He was not one of the people the right wing demonizes. Walleye Sep 20 #1

Walleye

(42,625 posts)

1. What he was thinking at the time is irrelevant. He was not one of the people the right wing demonizes.

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Sat Sep 20, 2025, 10:14 AM

Sep 20

Not an immigrant. Not a black woman,, not a drag queen. Not an atheist. He hadn’t gone to an ivy league or “eastern elite” college. The point is he started out as one of them. That didn’t stop him from committing a horrific act of violence.

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