Every once in a while, which means about every 10 seconds as you scroll social media, you find something that's so ridiculous it doesn't make any sense whatsoever and you can't understand why anyone would believe it.
You would laugh about it except for it becomes the main way that the people in power disempower you, take away your safety and security, financial stability and ultimately leave you impoverished and homeless in the land of your fathers.
And one of those is the constant drum beat that the most dangerous thing about America is: (ready?) Americans!
And yes, they always say white people when mentioning this. For some reason you should be really afraid of the guy who is living in a small town or off the land somewhere.
That's the dangerous guy.
But why do they need to make him seem so dangerous?
Because he's the one they're most afraid of?
Am I the one they're most afraid of?
Are you the one they're most afraid of?
Are we the ones they're most afraid of?
If so, is that a good sign?
All we have to do is decide that: things aren't going to continue as they are, and they lose all their power.
And so they constantly put out all sorts of warnings and alerts and alarms so that that doesn't happen. (Check out this link for proof and refs).
What does AI link text say?
## Prompt: 1/14/2026, 2:55:03 PM Comparing that with the ACTUAL violence and terrorist acts happening in the US: does the data bear this out?
## Response: 1/14/2026, 2:56:10 PM
I have the data now. This is an interesting question that requires distinguishing between what the data actually shows versus how it's being framed. Here's a balanced assessment:
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## The Short Answer: The data does support the characterization—but with major caveats about context and scale
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## What the Data Actually Shows
Within the category of "domestic terrorism" or "extremist-related killings," the government's characterization is accurate:
Right-wing extremist violence has been responsible for the overwhelming majority of fatalities, amounting to approximately 75% to 80% of U. S. domestic terrorism deaths since 2001.
Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.
The ADL's 2024 report found that all the extremist-related murders in 2024 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds, with eight of the 13 killings involving white supremacists and the remaining five having connections to far-right anti-government extremists.
CSIS data shows right-wing attacks and plots accounted for the majority of all terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994—specifically 57% of attacks vs. 25% left-wing and 15% religious.
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## The Critical Context: Scale and Proportion
Here's where the framing becomes debatable:
**Extremist killings are a tiny fraction of total U. S. homicides:**
- There were a total of 19,252 reported homicide cases in the U. S. in 2023. - ADL documented 13 extremist-related killings in 2024 - That's approximately 0.07% of annual homicides
Homicides across the United States are poised to plummet for the third straight year as 2024 winds down, driving the nation's annual murder toll down to levels not seen since before the pandemic. The 2024 figures show approximately 16,000+ homicides nationally.
So when officials say white supremacy is "the most lethal domestic terrorism threat," they're correct within that specific category—but that category represents a fraction of a percent of actual violence Americans face.
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## What Gets Categorized as "Terrorism" Matters Enormously
Because there is no public, official, unified and comprehensive database of domestic terrorism incidents in the U. S. , researchers who wish to analyze trends are required to assemble their own data sets. "There are a lot of ambiguities for really anyone who's trying to code terrorist attacks."
The definitional choices dramatically affect the numbers:
The FBI defines an "active shooter" incident as "one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area", excluding gun-related incidents that were the result of self-defense, gang or drug violence, residential or domestic disputes, crossfire as a byproduct of another ongoing criminal act.
Depending how the MS data is sliced, events associated with domestic violence and criminal activity make up 80 to 88 percent of mass shooting incidents in the U. S. with four or more fatally injured victims.
Only 12 percent of mass killings are mass public shootings. Most mass killings are "familicides" (murders of family members or intimate partners) and felony-related killings (robberies or gang-related "turf battles").
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## Recent Trends Complicate the Picture
The data has shifted notably in 2025:
Left-wing attacks and plots as a share of all terrorist attacks and plots reached a record high in the first half of 2025, although the decline of other forms of terrorism plays a significant role in this relative increase. The decline of right-wing terrorism in 2025 is striking.
From 2011 through 2024, an average of 20 right-wing terror incidents took place each year, compared to an average of nearly three left-wing incidents annually during that same period. But in the first half of 2025, left-wing incidents outnumbered right-wing for the first time in 30 years.
The deadliest single attack recently was jihadist: The ADL Center on Extremism has already documented 15 extremist-related murders in 2025 so far, 14 of them stemming from the deadly vehicular terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day, the first mass killing incident by a domestic Islamist extremist since Sayfullo Saipov's 2017 bike path rampage.
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## Summary Assessment
| Claim | Data Support | |-------|--------------| | White supremacists commit most domestic terrorism fatalities | Yes - 75-80% since 2001 | | Right-wing attacks outnumber left-wing attacks | Yes - historically ~7:1 ratio | | This is "the biggest threat Americans face" | Debatable - depends on how you define "threat" | | Domestic terrorism is a major cause of death | No - ~0.1% of homicides |
The government's characterization is technically accurate within the narrow category of ideologically-motivated terrorism. However, politically motivated violence in the U. S. is rare compared with overall violent crime.
The vast majority of Americans killed by violence die from causes that aren't categorized as "terrorism" at all—interpersonal disputes, gang violence, domestic violence, and drug-related crime account for the overwhelming majority of the ~17,000-20,000 annual homicides.
The data shows domestic terrorism kills roughly 13-30 people per year. Annual U. S. homicides run 17,000-20,000. That's approximately 0.1-0.2% of violent deaths.
Calling white supremacy "the single most dangerous terrorist threat" is technically accurate within a narrowly defined category. Calling it "the greatest threat" to Americans broadly is not supported by the mortality data. The average American is orders of magnitude more likely to be killed by someone they know, in a dispute, or in drug/gang-related violence than by any ideologically-motivated extremist of any stripe.
The framing choice to emphasize a statistically rare cause of death as the threat worth fearing—while simultaneously excluding from "terrorism" statistics the violence that actually kills people in large numbers—is a political and rhetorical choice, not a data-driven one.
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So if we frame the data just right. Meaning anytime someone of color is harmed or killed by someone who's not, we count that as racial violence, but the other way around it doesn't count, then yeah, there is. On a point 0 x % level.
Remember, they wouldn't be fighting you if they weren't afraid of you.