Not sure if you're being disingenuous or a bit dim.
Definitions of "left wing extremism" aren't really the issue here, I've done the like for like search for you.
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Yeah, I didn't include the word jailed in my search, so it wasn't like for like. Thanks for pointing it out. It's been a long day for me.
Nevertheless, in this case, my point was that a Google search didn't show anything for the left wing when there is clearly some extremism on both sides. For example, in the USA we had BLM protests turning into riots for months with deaths, record property losses, etc. On the other hand, recently we had the riots in Ireland. Someone brought up a stat that 88% of extremist murders are white-supremacist, but that 88% is just 15 murders. 15 too many, mind you, but out of thousands, tens of thousands of homicides, that's, relatively speaking, not a big issue for a few hundred million people in the USA. Therefore, I don't understand the focus on it. There are racists of all races, and slavery is (sadly, still in some places) one of the oldest institutions in the world and was prevalent for thousands of years on all continents as well. My point is that there are extremists, supremacists, or whatever we call them everywhere, left-wing, right-wing, or probably middle-wing, and it doesn't necessarily get counted. For example, to counter the white supremacist example, we had The Christmas parade massacre that was not considered extremist enough for the statistics despite 6 fatalities and 62 injuries.
How do they even count some murders as not extremist, to begin with? For me, every murder is extremist. There is no justification for murder, and no reason is "good enough." A lot of it is affected by the worldview people have based on their politics, but the extent of it is often virtually impossible to determine, so it often gets politicized by both parties.
I don't support either Democrats or Republicans, and that's one of the reasons. Both are too far from the middle for me and too focused on attacking one another instead of doing their jobs.
Anyway, I don't believe in personal attacks, so I don't like inconsistencies in the political subforum where sometimes some pretend one group is to blame (a bit like with our new players this season because apparently, it's all their fault), and the others are saints. For example, I also think Trump is mad, but we are into 4th year of Biden's presidency, the country has a lot of problems, and he doesn't even have a thread on this forum.
That's part of the reason why I rarely engage in the politics sub-forum. I don't think a lot of discussions are constructive, productive, or in good faith. That's just anecdotal, not in response to you, of course.
