RIGHT-WING VERSUS LEFT-WING VIOLENCE

Now watch this. Keep in mind the left-wing violence numbers are already narrowly categorized because they exclude so many borderline cases. What if you remove Neo-Nazi and white supremacy violence from the right-wing category? This is what you get:

 

This thought experiment removes the extreme right-wing killings that everyone agrees are not aligned with mainstream conservatism and compares the remainder to politically left-leaning violence, while noting how official classifications actually work.

 

1. Right-wing violence without neo-Nazis or white supremacists

 

This category mostly includes:

 

Anti-government militias and conspiratorial extremists, such as Oklahoma City bombing and some militia plots

Anti-abortion extremists, very rare

Individual lone actors with right-wing leanings but not overtly supremacist

 

Frequency is extremely low compared to the total right-wing violence that includes white supremacists.

 

Lethality is almost none in the past 20 years outside of white supremacist or neo-Nazi attacks. Most deaths came from extremists outside mainstream Republican ideology.

 

2. Politically left-leaning violence as recorded in databases

 

Officially, most of these incidents are not labeled as left-wing. They are often placed in categories such as:

 

Anti-police extremism, for example Micah Johnson and Ferguson-inspired ambushes

Anti-ICE or anarchist/Antifa-related incidents, for example Willem Van Spronsen and minor property attacks

Other or unclear categories, for example James Hodgkinson and Connor Betts

 

Frequency: Once you group incidents with a clear left-leaning motive or rhetoric, their count exceeds or at least matches the remainder of right-wing violence after white supremacist attacks are removed.

 

Lethality: Still lower than total right-wing violence, but now higher than non-supremacist right-wing lethal incidents.

 

3. Resulting picture

 

Removing neo-Nazi and white supremacist attacks dramatically shrinks the right-wing totals.

If you include all left-leaning incidents, even those officially placed in other categories, left-wing violence matches or exceeds non-supremacist right-wing violence in both frequency and lethality.

The narrative that right-wing violence overwhelmingly dominates breaks down if you consider ideological alignment and classification practices.

 

4. Key takeaway

 

Most lethal right-wing violence is committed by extremists who do not reflect mainstream conservative ideology.

Official classifications undercount left-leaning violence by splitting borderline cases into anti-police, anarchist, or unclear categories.

Including these left-leaning incidents shows that the perception gap is heavily influenced by classification choices, not just raw numbers.

From an email forwarded to me by Mich.