Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   ADL study debunked Date:   2/18/2019 5:11:27 PM

Sorry, but this is basically a repeat ad nasueum about a study done by ADL that has been debunked.  Hint, correlation is not causation.  When you look at the real statistics it's not even close.  Muslim and black activist extremist murders far outweigh "right wing" extremists, whatever that means.  Basically ADL very broadly defined what that term means and then included in their stats every murder committed by someone that fell into their overly broad definition.  As you can expect the "left wing" side of the equation was treated differently.

The relevant response from another organization that tracks this and is way more reputable than the ADL or SPLC.

But different organizations track extremist violence in different ways. The ADL counts non-ideological murders committed by extremists in its tally — so a dedicated white supremacist who commits a murder unrelated to his political beliefs would be counted, for example. New America, a think tank with its own tracking system, excludes such statistics.

New America counted five murders by far-right extremists in 2017, nine by Islamic extremists, and three by black nationalists.

Either way, extremist killings represent only a fraction of the total homicides in the U.S., though they tend to garner more media coverage and have an outsize impact on public debate.