WaPo admits their idiot data on "white extremist violence," gotten fm Jew defamation league, is all a crock

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WashPo: ADL Data on Right-Wing Extremist Violence is a Fraud​

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
May. 29, 2022

Link: http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63121

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The Anti-Defamation League's data claiming right-wing extremists are responsible for the vast majority of "extremist-related killings" is a total fraud.

These numbers are manipulable based on who you define as an extremist. ADL reaches these numbers by defining all homicides committed by members ofwhite gangs (mostly prison gangs) as right-wing extremists, while not defining black or Latino gangs as politically motivated. https://t.co/Aol9ayY1Kk
— Daniel Friedman (@DanFriedman81) May 20, 2022
Here’s a list of offenses included in the data. Any homicide involving any member of a white prison gang, whether the homicide itself is politically motivated or not, is counted as a right-wing extremist homicide: pic.twitter.com/lhqLYaPzae
— Daniel Friedman (@DanFriedman81) May 20, 2022
If every criminal or prison gang that only admits black members was considered a left-wing “black nationalist” extremist movement, and every homicide committed by gang members were counted as an extremist killing, then right-wing killings would be eclipsed by left-wing killings.
— Daniel Friedman (@DanFriedman81) May 20, 2022
Even the Washington Post last week had to come out and admit their data is junk.

From The Washington Post:
Beware the data on American right-wing violence
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By Megan McArdle | May 23, 2022 at 2:45 p.m. EDT

[...]

The aftermath of the Buffalo massacre saw a spate of articles describing the menace of right-wing extremists. The New York Times's David Leonhardt characterizes it as "a violence problem that has no equivalent on the left." You might even have glanced at the reports these articles often cite from the Anti-Defamation League. Over the past decade, the ADL has counted about 450 murders committed by domestic political extremists, with 29 occurring just last year. It reports the overwhelming majority were committed by people with ties to various right-wing groups.

Seems straightforward, right? Well, yes -- until you look at the underlying data.

The people citing these reports write about them as if they primarily document political violence -- or "domestic terrorism," as my own colleagues put it. That is to say, attacks that are motivated by someone's political affiliation and at least tangentially related to some political goals.

Certainly such attacks do happen, and far too often. Just in the past year, Nathan Allen, allegedly a white supremacist, killed two Black people in Massachusetts before being shot by police officers; "manosphere" devotee Lyndon McLeod went on a shooting spree in Colorado; and Aidan Ingalls opened fire on the South Haven, Mich., pier using a gun decorated with swastikas.

But look closer and some of those cases aren't as clear-cut as they sound in the gloss. McLeod appears to have killed people he knew from the local tattoo community for possibly unrelated personal grievances. Ingalls's two random victims were White.

Drill down further into the data and you'll find other cases are even less clearly political: prison gang members engaging in pedestrian criminal violence; white supremacists killing their wives; people with mental illness acting on elaborate delusions that sometimes include references to right-wing conspiracy theories; people embroiled in criminal trials or child custody disputes who have become enamored of "sovereign citizen" theories that tell them the state has no right to interfere.

I'm not cherry-picking a few ambiguous outliers; I'm arguably describing the majority of the incidents in the ADL's 2021 report. [...]

"One of the most striking features of white supremacist murders is the large proportion of non-ideological killings to ideological killings," the ADL wrote in its most recent report. "Over the past 10 years, only 86 of the 244 white supremacist killings (35%) were ideological murders."

One reason for this confusion is that all prison gangs tend to be organized along racial lines, for complex sociological reasons, yet only the White gangs are coded as white-supremacist groups rather than criminal organizations. [...]

After all those reports on the threat of right-wing violence, any new case with a tenuous link to the alt-right or the Aryan Brotherhood seems like part of a trend meriting wall-to-wall coverage. Meanwhile, a Black man driving into a parade after making anti-White remarks on Facebook is seen as a sick individual.
RealClearInvestigations has more:
"The FBI has not issued the official number of murders in the U.S. in 2021, but it is expected to exceed the number of murders in 2020: 21,570 -- of which, according to ADL, 23 were committed by extremists," Carl Moody, an economist at the College of William & Mary who studies crime, told RealClearInvestigations.

"The data presented by the ADL could also be characterized as follows: the number of murders committed by extremists is very small, only 29 in 2021, of which less than half were committed by white supremacists," Moody said. "It is also 63% lower than the maximum number (78) in 2016, so extremism is down since 2016. In 2020, according to the CDC, 1080 people were killed falling out of bed. Therefore, you are 47 times more likely to be killed by a bed than by an extremist."

[...] Crime experts also note that many of the killings cited by the ADL – such as the slaying committed by Shawn Lichtfuss, the New Jersey man who killed his wife, or John Hilt and Justin Murphy, the allegedly lethal members of the Family Values prison gang – were not hate crimes aimed at terrorizing blacks or other minorities.

These include:

- A white supremacist with a "swastika and SS tattoos on his face" who killed another man in an extended-stay hotel "following an argument over a social media post."

- An alleged member of a Fresno, California, white supremacist street gang who "allegedly [shot] a man with whom he had long been feuding."

- Four members of the New Mexico Aryan Brotherhood who "were involved in a shootout amongst themselves inside a vehicle."
While the ADL is constantly hyping the purported threat of neo-Nazi extremism in America and pushing for domestic terrorism legislation to crack down on their political opposition, they run cover for neo-Nazi extremists in Ukraine and support arming them to the teeth.

All they care about is advancing their political agenda.
 

Pigment of Your Imagination

Steve Sailer
August 17, 2022

Link: https://www.takimag.com/article/pigment-of-your-imagination/

Pigment of Your Imagination

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As antiwhite racism has become more respectable, use of the word “whiteness,” which is increasingly employed as an ethnic slur, has sextupled in frequency in books published in America since the first era of political correctness began in the late 1980s.
While calls to “Abolish the White Race” may sound alarmingly genocidal, advocates of defaming, deconstructing, dismantling, and destroying the white race, on the rare occasions when challenged, tend to respond that they don’t mean doing violence to the white race, which, science has proven, doesn’t exist biologically, just to “whiteness,” which is totally different from white people (who don’t exist).
In the current mindset, “whiteness” represents everything you deserve to resent about white people—their home equity, their accomplished ancestors, their fair skin, their silky hair, their genes, and all those other social constructs. But you shouldn’t be accused of exactly hating white human beings themselves (who, as Ta-Nahisi Coates would always point out, are really only “people who think they are white”), just their whiteness.
“This thin novel about the final solution to the whiteness question, and, even more strikingly, the lack of objection to it by critics, is highly reflective of the zeitgeist.”
Yes, I know that doesn’t seem to make much sense, but that just proves how you didn’t go to grad school.
This summer, a prominent literary novelist born in Pakistan, Mohsin Hamid, has published a much-acclaimed fantasy looking forward to the (almost completely nonviolent) extinction of the white race, The Last White Man, that exemplifies antiwhiteness thought.
This thin novel about the final solution to the whiteness question, and, even more strikingly, the lack of objection to it by critics, is highly reflective of the zeitgeist.

In this work of magical realism without either the realism or the magic (drab didacticism?), a personal trainer named Anders awakens in an unnamed snowy country to find he is no longer white in looks, but is now a “dark man.”
This opening is of course a riff on Gregor Samsa waking up in Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis to find himself transformed into a “monstrous vermin.” Now, you might think that critics would object to Hamid equating being nonwhite with being a cockroach. But in our era, the literati assume Anders is instead being liberated from his whiteness and ascending to a higher state of humanity.
It’s important to note that The Last White Man isn’t a rant or a screed demanding action. Hamid is a prototypical sensitive novelist with an indoor voice. Indeed, his book is remarkably wanting in incident, and Hamid is much better at describing his mopey, not very bright main characters’ dull inner lives than at tub-thumping.

But the book assumes the truth of various post-Foucault social constructionist shibboleths, which is why it’s both so acceptable to reviewers and so short, vague, and intellectually undeveloped: Try as you might, you just can’t imagine in realistic detail a world that works the way so many English majors now assume.
As a depiction of life in the 2020s, The Last White Man is laughably out-of-date: For instance, the newly dark Anders is terrified that he will be attacked by white racists if he goes out on the street—in this town, introverted nonwhites cringe in fear at all the white bullies they pass on the sidewalk. Sure, that’s stupid. But that’s what critics want to believe.
Then more white people in the town wake up dark.
Soon, as during Covid, everybody is staying home and hoarding toilet paper. After a few months, as in late May 2020, the riots start. “Pale-skinned militants” burn, loot, and murder—I mean, that is what happened in the summer of 2020, right? Pale-skinned militants ran amok across America?
But, eventually, everybody turns dark, the last white man dies, peace returns, righteous vengeance is taken upon only the worst ex-whites, the burnt shops are rebuilt, and the ex-whites finally get over their nostalgia and more or less live happily ever after in the nice new all-brown world. In the epilogue set years later, Anders’ nonwhite daughter tells her ex-white grandmother, who likes to talk to her about their white ancestors, to shut up.
If you find the concept of race-change intriguing, Hamid will not satisfy your curiosity. For example, what nonwhite race Anders turns into is never disclosed: In this book there are only whites and an unspecified mass of nonwhites, which suits the overwhelmingly white book-buying audience—they don’t pay much attention to nonwhites other than as a bludgeon against whites they don’t like.

Why the white race goes extinct is not explained either, other than to say that its cause is “not contagious.” Hence, unlike during Covid, that means that anybody who socially distances, much less wears a mask, can be pigeonholed as a racist. In The Last White Man, only conspiracy theorists look for a medical cause or cure. The end of the white race is not something, like Covid or climate change, that you can do anything about. You just have to reconcile yourself to its inevitability.
Hamid devotes virtually zero thought to the mechanics or implications of his gimmick, other than to specify that white people wake up some shade of brown, but that they remain the same size, presumably so that their clothes still fit. In real life, the different races have notably different proportions: Blacks tend to have relatively long limbs and mestizos short, which would render your wardrobe comically ill-fitting. But the humorless Last White Man, subscribing to the conventional wisdom that race is a skin-deep social construct, doesn’t notice amusing complications like that.
Unlike body shapes, facial features change so that ex-whites don’t resemble their old selves at all, but their voices remain the same and thus their parents can recognize them.
But what does it mean to “change race”? Does your family tree change? Is your DNA rewritten? After all, if you think about it (which Hamid obviously has not), race is about who your ancestors are. Nobody in the book takes a DNA test to find out if they still have the same ancestors. This is particularly peculiar because the main characters, Anders and his girlfriend Oona, a yoga teacher, spend much time caring for their aged parents. You’d think it would come up…
Or you might wonder what nonwhite men who have obtained white women think when their hard-won prizes turn brown? But Hamid isn’t interested in unsettling questions like that.
No critics have brought up these obvious questions because the race-does-not-exist dogma is so strong these days. In The New York Times, for instance, Ezra Klein was impressed by Hamid’s hilariously lame explanation of “whiteness”:
Q. If one of your kids asked you what is whiteness, what does it mean, what does it give you, what would you say?
A. I think that I would probably start by saying it’s something that’s been imagined into existence. So it’s unclear to me if there’s really such a thing as whiteness. I think that whiteness is one of these imaginary categories. But once it’s imagined into existence, it does all kinds of stuff, and it operates in the world. And it means that some people imagine themselves as belonging to a group that’s white, and others not.
This is the kind of embarrassing Ta-Nehisi Coates-level inanity that impresses cultured people these days as profound.
The most hostile review The Last White Man received was in The Atlantic, where the half-black critic was offended that Hamid wasn’t antiwhite enough, that he dared let some of his ex-white characters be wistful about what they used to be. She tweeted:
But ‘The Last White Man,’ with its po-faced conceit of white people transforming “dark,” both literalizes and empathizes with the paranoid, asinine Great Replacement theory. Hamid says in interview: “What might it feel like to live in a town that undergoes [that] transformation?”
You could ask longtime inhabitants of Rotherham, England, what Pakistani-driven demographic change is like.
First of all, migration adds; it does not “replace”; this is not a zero sum game. “Darkness” is not some ancient curse or new revenge to be borne by an innocent “whiteness”; both are the result of a racial order that was and continues to be violently imposed on the modern world.
To treat “whiteness” as a thing that can be “lost”—in Hamid’s novel, “mourned”!—distorts the fact that it is not a cultural or ethnic monolith but a shifting, exclusionary ideology that, again, requires violence.
Yet, whiteness hasn’t been very exclusionary toward Hamid, who was born in Pakistan but grew up in Palo Alto, where his father was an academic at Stanford. He graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law School, became a McKinsey consultant, and then an award-winning novelist (although he still keeps his hand in the lucrative brand-consultancy game). In other words, the white man’s world has been very, very good to Hamid.
When asked about his motivations for writing The Last White Man, he talks about how offended he was after 9/11 when airport security checked him over more closely than before, and about his worries that Brexit and Trump suggest that the people of the West might become less inclined to share their countries with ever more millions of Pakistanis:
In country after country, we’re seeing this idea that there is some group that conceives of itself as a dominant group, and sees its position as under threat—and so having a nostalgic politics in response to that threat.
Hamid, himself, looks rather white for a South Asian. So you can understand how impertinent it seems to him for Americans and Englishmen to question the right of a hereditary Aryan overlord like himself to move to their countries if it is his whim.
As a prose stylist, Hamid is addicted to run-on sentences. Usually, novelists who prefer long sentences have complex ideas to get across, but Hamid does not. I presume from his glittering résumé that he is a smart man, but his tiny novel’s premise doesn’t bear in-depth consideration.
Instead, Hamid reads like Hemingway if his printer had found, on deadline, that he didn’t have enough periods in his type tray for Ernest’s short sentences, so he substituted commas instead. Here’s a fragment of one of Hamid’s sentences about Anders’ dying dad that would have won the old Bad Hemingway Contest:
…he had lived with a fear a long time, and he had not let fear master him, not yet, and he would try to continue, to continue to not let fear master him, and often he did not have the energy to think, but when he did, he thought of what made a death a good death, and his sense was that a good death would be one that did not scare his boy, that a father’s duty was not to avoid dying in front of his son, this a father could not control, but rather that if a father did have to die in front of his son, he ought to die as well as he was able, to do it in a way that left his son with something, that left him with the strength to live, and the strength to know that one day he could die well himself, as his father had, and so Anders’ father strove to…
Many people like his style. He wins prizes.
The good news is that The Last White Man can’t be made into a movie, not only because it’s too boring and too impossible to visualize non-laughably, but also because of all the blackface.
 

ADL Melts Down Over Trump, Alex Jones, Steve Bannon Returning To Twitter: ‘Would Lead to Dire Consequences’​

Infowars.com
October 30th 2022, 1:42 pm

Link: https://www.infowars.com/posts/adl-...g-to-twitter-would-lead-to-dire-consequences/

Far-left anti-First Amendment group in a panic over return of Republican populist leaders on Twitter.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issued a warning against the reinstatements of former President Donald Trump, Infowars founder Alex Jones, and former White House strategist Steve Bannon back onto Twitter, claiming it will “lead to dire consequences.”

In a panicked article written shortly after Musk acquired Twitter on Friday, the ADL claimed Musk’s expected reversal of “hate speech policies and content moderation” signals that the leaders of the Republican populist movement will soon be allowed to return to Twitter.


From the ADL website:

ADL has grave concerns regarding who will be allowed back on Twitter. Foremost among those concerns is the reinstatement of former President Donald Trump, who was permanently banned for violating Twitter’s glorification of violence policy related to the January 6 insurrection. Throughout his presidency, Trump used Twitter to spread hate and incite violence. There is no reason to believe the former president will behave differently should the platform reverse his ban. Trump’s recent posts on Truth Social, a platform he owns, reflect a continuation of his heinous behavior, including making direct threats against American Jews and embracing QAnon.
The anti-First Amendment group goes on to list “other high-profile and dangerous individuals” who may be allowed to return to Twitter, which include David Duke, Nick Fuentes, Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, and Andrew Tate.

“Providing these individuals again with the vast megaphone of Twitter to spread hate and misinformation would lead to dire consequences,” the ADL stated, without elaborating on what those consequences would be.

The article goes on to condemn Musk’s firing of Twitter’s former executives, including then-CEO Parag Agrawal and legal policy chief Vijaya Gadde, warning “extremism” and “election disinformation” will prevail on the platform.

“We will see if Musk’s leadership waters down its approach to addressing hate, harassment, extremism, election disinformation, or holding world leaders accountable for posting hateful content and inciting violence,” the article concludes. “ADL believes substantive changes to Twitter’s policies will harm marginalized communities, normalize toxic ideologies, and lead to offline danger.”
 

The Anti-Defamation League asks U.S. companies to fight antisemitism and measure the progress​

PUBLISHED FRI, JUN 9 2023 10:43 AM EDT
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Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/09/the...-asks-us-companies-to-fight-antisemitism.html
  • The Anti-Defamation League unveiled a plan that asks U.S. corporations, government agencies, and non-profits to pledge to fight antisemitism in their workplaces.
  • ADL’s plan builds on last month’s White House pledge to fight the increasing number of antisemitic incidents across the U.S.
  • “Jewish people account for about 2% of the population, yet they are the most singled-out victimized religious minority,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said at a CNBC event on Thursday night.
WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES - 2019/06/04: Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO & National Director, speaking at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) National Leadership Summit in Washington, DC. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO and National Director, at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) National Leadership Summit in Washington, DC.
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The Anti-Defamation League is asking American corporations, government agencies, and non-profits to pledge to fight antisemitism in their workplaces, and intends to audit and report on their progress in 2024.
Speaking at a CNBC Workforce Executive Council dinner on June 8, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said it’s time for corporations to tackle the growing problem of antisemitism in the workplace and put measures in place to track progress. The ADL initiative includes addressing antisemitism in diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, supporting employee resource groups or affinity groups for Jewish employees, guaranteeing religious accommodations for workers, and urging companies to use their public platforms to speak out against antisemitism.

“Workplace DEI initiatives are admirable efforts to create fairer workplaces, but for too long, too many have left Jewish workers out of the equation,” Greenblatt said. “Corporations should prioritize supporting Jewish employees as much as any other marginalized group.”
To address this oversight, he said corporate DEI initiatives should do an internal audit to identify areas for improvement in terms of policies, practices, and company language to make sure they are inclusive.
Employee resource groups not only give Jewish employees an opportunity to share experiences, connect with others, and advocate for more inclusive policies with the company, but they also serve as a valuable sounding board for leaders and for educating non-Jewish employees about antisemitism and how it can manifest in the workplace, he said.

Building on White House efforts​

Greenblatt said the ADL’s plan builds on last month’s White House pledge to fight the increasing number of antisemitic incidents across the U.S. He cited a 2022 study that found that more than half of Jewish respondents experienced discrimination at work, a statistic that he said is in line with broader societal trends.
According to the ADL, antisemitic acts surged to historic levels last year, with a total of 3,697 incidents reported across the U.S., an increase of 36% compared to 2021. Businesses represent the fifth-most frequent site where antisemitic incidents take place. “The plan the White House released is extraordinary, but business needs to step up as well,” Greenblatt told the gathering of chief people officers and DEI leaders.

While companies spend upwards of $8 billion annually on DEI programs, Greenblatt said Jewish employees are often overlooked. That enables workplace antisemitism to manifest in a number of ways including harassment, microaggressions, and hostility toward Jewish employees. Corporate policies that don’t allow time off for holidays or Shabbat observance add to an atmosphere of inequity, he said. And at a time when companies are dealing with declining engagement, productivity, and higher turnover among employees, antisemitic comments and actions only worsen the issue.
Every company involved in the pledge will receive ADL information on antisemitism, religious accommodations, and Jewish culture and contributions. Through ADL’s efforts in the Shine A Light campaign, 48 companies have committed to adding or enhancing antisemitism education in their DEI strategies. And in February, the ADL announced a new training program, Antisemitism 101 for the Workplace, to help companies improve their anti-bias curriculum, which more than 50 workplaces have used since its launch.
“Jewish people account for about 2% of the population, yet they are the most singled-out victimized religious minority,” Greenblatt said. “Companies are in a position to change that and they want to do the right thing. I’m optimistic that they’re going to, and that when we check in with them in a year, we’re going to see progress.”
 
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