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White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States, according to a study by the New America Foundation. The Washington-based research organization did a review of terror attacks on US soil since Sept. 11, 2001 and found that most of them were carried out by radical anti-government groups or white supremacists.
Almost twice as many people have died in attacks by right-wing groups in America than have died in attacks by Muslim extremists. Of the 26 attacks since 9/11 that the group defined as terror, 19 were carried out by non-Muslims. Yet there are no white Americans languishing inside the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. And there are no drones dropping bombs on gatherings of military-age males in the country's lawless border regions.
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6592741/2015/06/24/white-americans-are-biggest-terror-threat-united-states
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)to 1995
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)sudenlyseymour
(25 posts)Of course, feelings don't actually match up to reality and scientific statistics.
In fact, the number of people who have perpetrated terrorism on US soil has overwhelmingly consisted of white males.
Let us just review. The bombing of the FBI buidling in Oklahoma was done by a white male. The shooting of innocent people in a church in SC was done by a white male. The shooting of people in a theatre in CO was done by a white male. The shooting of a congress person in AZ was done by a white male.
Clearly, white males are a threat to the safety of people in the US.
Anansi1171
(793 posts)...supremacist organization promulgating terrorism isnt even mentioned...COPS.
They are off the chain, they are never wrong, and even if they are its not their money on the line anyway.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)See my post below
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)really aren't going to help solve any terrorism problems
To be useful an analysis should point towards a solution -- or at least point towards what we need to learn before we can propose credible responses
packman
(16,296 posts)The point, IMHO, of the article was to highlight that more terrorist attacks have been done since 9/11 and yet our focus, and the media's is not on the white fundamentalist committing those problems. Why aren't there white terrorist at Gitmo instead of the population that is there now? If we are going to be serious out terrorism, we have to expand our scope of who is a terrorist and treat them the same in identifying them, interrogating them, and punishing them.
A myopic viewpoint about race clouds the issue of terrorism.
TeddyR
(2,493 posts)And I could be wrong, is that the folks at Guantanamo are there because they are foreign nationals and Bush didn't want them on US soil having access to US courts. Sending US citizens to Guantanamo is almost certainly unconstitutional and unnecessary, because presumably the American citizens convicted in the US are sent to US prisons.
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)you ask "Why aren't there white terrorist at Gitmo?"
Well, personally, I don't want anybody at GITMO
You say, "We have to expand our scope of who is a terrorist and treat them the same in identifying them, interrogating them, and punishing them"
My view is that the Bush-era policies were a disaster from the beginning, and I'm not going to echo an analysis that suggests we should expand those policies
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Take the actions of an infinitesimal fragment of the whole and attribute all of it to the whole.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)and not that I am making apologies either but "white" or people that appear "white" are not the majority globally speaking.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Oh wait, it's fucking idiocy. My bad.
packman
(16,296 posts)Perhaps they should have started this analysis on April 19, 1995 - that would have made more sense.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)9/11 killed about 3000.
There is no comparison with respect to scale here.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)Heh. That's not Orwellian or anything, not one bit. That sounds as trustworthy as the Lucifer Trust and the Bank of Honesty.
Rex
(65,616 posts)And sadly many white Americans embace fundamentalism.
Bonx
(2,075 posts)Complete with dubious source and conclusions.
packman
(16,296 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)" its free and easy to use just like the ignore button "
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Males are the perpetrators of mass shootings.
ileus
(15,396 posts)thus they pose a biggest threat number wise that's for sure...
linuxman
(2,337 posts)Adjusted for population based on group (White vs Muslim, though there is a bit of overlap), it seems the Muslims are punching far, far, far above their weight class when it comes to extremist violence, compared to Whites. and making the start date post 9/11? Nice touch. Oh wait, was I supposed to just swallow your race baiting horseshit? Sorry, I messed up.