UT professor to Oak Ridge League: Most recent terrorist attacks in U.S. made by right-wing groups

[ck4829]

After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, Americans worried for years about the increasing number of domestic terrorism attacks by radical Islamists.

However, in the past seven years, most terrorist attacks in the United States, “probably two-thirds to three-fourths, would be categorized by the FBI and by a University of Maryland project as right-wing terrorism,” said Brandon Prins, professor and director of graduate studies in the University of Tennessee's political science department. He was the guest speaker at a recent League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge luncheon.

“In the United States, Islamic terrorism attacks have been eclipsed by white nationalist violence that we see more of today,” he said.

Prins defined right-wing, white nationalist attacks as “violence perpetrated by people who are anti-government in that they’re reacting negatively to liberal policies, LGBTQ rights and excessive government regulation.”

https://www.oakridger.com/story/news/local/2023/03/09/ut-prof-most-recent-u-s-terrorist-attacks-made-by-right-wing-groups/69948777007/

[Walleye]

1. The right wingers think any government regulation is excessive

When it affects them of course

[dlk]

5. Their adult version of, "you're not the boss of me""

With unlimited guns, of course.

[Walleye]

6. The rest of that is, "I am the boss of all of you"

As long as they’re trying to regulate women’s reproductive systems I can’t take any of their crap talk about regulations very seriously

[dlk]

12. Tyrants with the emotional maturity of a toddler

n/t

[Botany]

2. And these right wing terrorists get their "fever dreams" stoked by Russian misinformation which ...

.... is repeated on Fox News and by republicans.

There was a report (DoJ??) that America's big threat was from domestic right wing racist groups
and I think it was under the w or Obama administrations and the republicans made that report
go away and the result was this:

[pazzyanne]

4. Exactly! nt

[Botany]

9. Russia's war on America Contiues / Russians boasted that just 1% of fake social profiles are caught

These anti vaxers, worrying about trans or lgbt kids, the threat by drag shows, calling people
pedophiles, racist mother fuckers, climate change isn't real (from the fossil fuel industries),
"the border leaking under Biden," evil school books & classes, anti education, and flat out
Christo Fascisti proud boy thugs all getting daily input from Russia or their cut outs.


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Russia's war on America Contiues / Russians boasted that just 1% of fake social profiles are caught
Most of these common right wing memes such as: "you don't know what is in those C-19 vaccines, the bad side effects of the vaccines, the threat from trans people, the grooming of kids by LGBT, helping Ukraine is a bad idea, and so on"
are from Russia. The GOP, Fox News, and others on the right are more than happy to push these lies in order to hurt "the libs" and cause social division in America.

And Russia is still @ war on America by pushing disinformation via social media another example of Russia's war on America can be seen in Tony DeVolder aka George Santos who is a Russian paid for "chaos agent" and
he was paid for by Russian Agent Oleg Deripaska, who in 2016 was paying for NYC FBI agent McGonigal to rat f**k the HRC campaign. BTW in 2016 if you read anything on Facebook about HRC and her emails you were
reading Russian disinformation.

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SAN FRANCISCO — The Russian government has become far more successful at manipulating social media and search engine rankings than previously known, boosting lies about Ukraine’s military and the side effects of vaccines with hundreds of thousands of fake online accounts, according to documents recently leaked on the chat app Discord.

The Russian operators of those accounts boast that they are detected by social networks only about 1 percent of the time, one document says.

That claim, described here for the first time, drew alarm from former government officials and experts inside and outside social media companies contacted for this article.

“Google and Meta and others are trying to stop this, and Russia is trying to get better. The figure that you are citing suggests that Russia is winning,” said Thomas Rid, a disinformation scholar and professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/16/russia-disinformation-discord-leaked-documents/

[Lovie777]

3. K&R......

[justgamma]

7. Violent attacks

by wingnuts is pretty scary. I wonder how many offices were taken over by fear and intimidation. They didn't have to fire a shot and it seems like they are winning in too many places.

[Irish_Dem]

8. Straight from the KGB handbook on how to create rebellion in a target country.

Divide and conquer.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "the past seven years, most terrorist attacks...would be categorized ...as right-wing terrorism,"

That's because during the previous century, the below "didn't count" as "right-wing terrorism" It was simply the "good ole boys takin' care 'o some bidness" -

[IronLionZion]

11. Ignoring white terrorism encourages more of it

and we have plenty on our side deciding that right wing extremists are not political and therefore not terrorists. Just mentally ill if white.

The best one I saw recently on DU was the response to classified data breaches was to restrict security clearances to whites only, just like Jack Teixeira and the Trumps and Edward Snowden. Super secure. Russians are white

[progressoid]

13. File this under "No Shit Sherlock"