I’m not sure that this is quite a Berg’s Seventh Law reference – but as a general rule, when the far left says the far right is getting more violent, they’re lying.
Indeed, it’s almost becoming a corollary to Berg’s Seventh – all lefty claims of “right wing violence” should be presumed false until proven true beyond a reasonable doubt.
• The article cites data from the Southern Poverty Law Center to show that “the number of American extremist groups has also risen overall in recent years”:
Ah, no. What has risen is the rent in their (SPLC) office palace, and the salaries of their highly paid staff. So they need to come up with more boggey men to scare people with when fund raising.
Personally, I find any Hate Group List that SPLC releases that doesn’t include themselves to be disingenuous. How many mass shootings (or attempted mass shootings) are we up to where the nutjob picked his target off an SPLC List? By their own logic, that makes them responsible for any deaths that resulted.