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From The Week magazine online:
"""Take the so-called "Proud Boys," a violent proto-fascist gang founded by the overt racist Gavin McInnes. McInnes was recently invited to the Metropolitan Republican Club — which is also the headquarters of the New York Republican Party. At the club, McInnes and his goons celebrated the 58th anniversary of the political assassination of Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma, who was stabbed to death with a samurai sword at a public event by a young right-wing fanatic. Brandishing a sword himself to re-enact the murder, McInnes said, "Never let evil take root."
Again, these guys were invited to come by top New York Republicans. And afterwards, the Proud Boys allegedly conducted gang beatdowns of several lefty counter-protesters while they screamed homophobic slurs. Far-right extremists, including both "Patriot Prayer" (a different right-wing gang) members and Proud Boys, allegedly did something similar in Portland the next day — and not for the first time. Gang beatdowns are apparently important initiation rituals for the Proud Boys.
Then, of course, there was the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville last year, in which a right-wing terrorist allegedly murdered one counter-protester and injured about 30 others by driving his car into a crowd at high speed (his trial is still pending). A count done by a data reporter at Quartz found right-wing terrorists far exceeded any other type in 2017. (Left-wing terrorism, including the congressional baseball shooting, was about a third as large. Islamic terrorism was even lower.)
All this takes place in the a background of a Republican Party whose top leadership increasingly tolerates, condones, or even carries out political violence. President Trump did issue a statement Wednesday saying: "[A]cts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the United States of America." But he was saying the exact opposite just a few days previously."""
America has a right-wing terrorism problem
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"""Take the so-called "Proud Boys," a violent proto-fascist gang founded by the overt racist Gavin McInnes. McInnes was recently invited to the Metropolitan Republican Club — which is also the headquarters of the New York Republican Party. At the club, McInnes and his goons celebrated the 58th anniversary of the political assassination of Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma, who was stabbed to death with a samurai sword at a public event by a young right-wing fanatic. Brandishing a sword himself to re-enact the murder, McInnes said, "Never let evil take root."
Again, these guys were invited to come by top New York Republicans. And afterwards, the Proud Boys allegedly conducted gang beatdowns of several lefty counter-protesters while they screamed homophobic slurs. Far-right extremists, including both "Patriot Prayer" (a different right-wing gang) members and Proud Boys, allegedly did something similar in Portland the next day — and not for the first time. Gang beatdowns are apparently important initiation rituals for the Proud Boys.
Then, of course, there was the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville last year, in which a right-wing terrorist allegedly murdered one counter-protester and injured about 30 others by driving his car into a crowd at high speed (his trial is still pending). A count done by a data reporter at Quartz found right-wing terrorists far exceeded any other type in 2017. (Left-wing terrorism, including the congressional baseball shooting, was about a third as large. Islamic terrorism was even lower.)
All this takes place in the a background of a Republican Party whose top leadership increasingly tolerates, condones, or even carries out political violence. President Trump did issue a statement Wednesday saying: "[A]cts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the United States of America." But he was saying the exact opposite just a few days previously."""
America has a right-wing terrorism problem
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.