The man who launched his 2020 campaign for president touting the lie that Donald Trump commended "Very fine" white supremacists after a 2017 protest in Charlottesville can be expected to promote another lie; violent white supremacists and domestic extremists pose a heightened threat to the country.
While noting mass shootings committed by white men in Charleston, Pittsburgh, and El Paso, the analysis failed to prove what it described as a "Persistent and emerging" threat of domestic terrorism.
Republican House leaders on Monday morning for enabling "White nationalism, [and] white supremacy"-try to twist the matter, the data simply does not support these accusations.
Roughly half, according to the FBI's crime data explorer.
The individual cases may be troubling but in no way do they incriminate an entire race or political party, much less do they support the narrative of a rampant "White supremacist" crime spree.
Overall crime statistics for 2021, including racially motivated crimes, may not be made available to the public this year-a timely gift to Democrats as voters continue to list crime as their top concern ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
A 224 percent increase in anti-Asian hate crimes; a 58 percent increase in anti-Jewish hate crimes; and a 51 percent increase in anti-gay hate crimes.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/16/no-data-supports-threat-of-white-supremacists/
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