Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2022
New ADL Data: Mass Shootings Accounted for the Majority of Victims of Extremist-Related Killings in 2022
February 22, 2023
Extremism, Terrorism & Bigotry. From: Center on Extremism,
Every year, individuals with ties to different extreme causes and movements kill people in the United States; the ADL Center on Extremism (COE) tracks these murders. Extremists regularly commit murders in the service of their ideology, in the service of a group or gang they may belong to, or even while engaging in traditional, non-ideological criminal activities.
In 2022, domestic extremists killed at least 25 people in the U.S., in 12 separate incidents. This represents a decrease from the 33 extremist related murders documented in 2021 and is comparable to the 22 extremist-related murders in 2020.
It continues the recent trend of fewer extremist-related killings after a five-year span of 47-78 extremist-related murders per year (2015-2019).
The Congressional Black Caucus is more important than ever
Michael Benz, a conservative crusader against online censorship, appears to have a secret history as an alt-right persona
Democrats spend tens of millions amplifying far-right candidates in nine states
LockerDome Has Been Paying Tens of Millions of Dollars to Hundreds of Alt-Right Websites Over the Last 7 Year
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
ALT-RIGHT EXTREMISM
The Alternative Right, commonly known as the “alt-right,” is a set of far-right ideologies, groups and individuals whose core belief is that “white identity” is under attack by multicultural forces using “political correctness” and “social justice” to undermine white people and “their” civilization.
“Martin Luther King Jr., a fraud and degenerate in his life, has become the symbol and cynosure of White Dispossession and the deconstruction of Occidental civilization. We must overcome!”
—National Policy Institute column, January 2014
“Immigration is a kind of proxy war—and maybe a last stand—for White Americans, who are undergoing a painful recognition that, unless dramatic action is taken, their grandchildren will live in a country that is alien and hostile.”
—National Policy Institute column, February 2014
“Since we are fighting for nothing less than the biological survival of our race, and since the vast bulk of Jews oppose us, we need to err on the side of caution and have no association with Jews whatsoever. Any genuine Jewish well-wishers will understand, since they know what their people are like better than we ever can. Saving our race is something that we will have to do ourselves alone.”
—Greg Johnson, “White Nationalism & Jewish Nationalism,” August 2011
“I oppose the Jewish diaspora in the United States and other white societies. I would like to see the white peoples of the world break the power of the Jewish diaspora and send the Jews to Israel, where they will have to learn how to be a normal nation.”
—Greg Johnson, “White Nationalism & Jewish Nationalism,” August 2011
Slam poet Theo E.J. Wilson, a.k.a “Lucifury”: A Black Man Uncovers the Alt-Right.
Using a cell phone
I took a cell phone from someone and accidentally made myself famous.
I began talking about the things that I cared about but with the click of a button and an incendiary viral video, I propelled myself into overnight stratum. When I say overnight, I mean, I literally woke up the next morning with so many notifications on my phone I thought I slept through a national tragedy. It was the craziest thing, guys, but when it came to my influence and my exposure, I literally took a quantum leap. So, I made more videos. And, the subject matter of my videos was often the most divisive subjects in American life. But it was the way that I articulated the race that made me somewhat of a digital lightning rod.
Charles the Black Panther
So, being a survivor myself of police brutality. Having lost a childhood friend, Alonzo, at the hands of the police. I had a little something to say about the topic.
I began my Collective Conscious Evolution at the height of the Black lives matter movements. More and more people seem to be turning to me to articulate their viewpoints and honestly that was sort of overwhelming because nothing trips you out more than being a political star on the internet.
There is no class to teach you how to deal with people treating you like a messianic figure. A prophet, a new school, charismatic leader for the digital age. Folks, treating you like you are the black panther from the marvel universe– is flattering.– At first, but down the road, it gets a little troublesome.
You see the internet.has this interesting quality, and one way it totally brought the world together, and I remember being a kid and all of this utopian propaganda was being dumped on us about how the world wide web was going to spam the reaches of people across the globe. As it turns out, people are people. And this magical super highway also took the demons of our nature and gave them Ferraris
The Internet Trolls
You see technology y’all is a lot like money. This brings out what’s already inside you. It amplifies me. If so, I assume I became familiar with the phenomenon of the internet troll. These guys seem to live beneath the bridges of said, super highway. And they also miss the memo about the enlightenment of the internet age.
I am. Remember, being called highly colorful racial slurs. By those who use the anonymity of the internet as a clan hood. And um, some of them were pretty creative actually But others were pretty wounding, especially navigating the post-traumatic world of a police brutality survivor And the height of black lives matter what?
The Brains
All of these people are killed on my timeline. To these trolls. I wasn’t human. I had an idea, an object, a caricature. Because I mentioned that this race stuff can be kind of divisive. You see, I’m an innately curious person, and as I drew my sword to engage in epic battles in the comments section.
I also began to notice that a few of my trolls actually had brains, which made me even more curious to want to understand them even further. Although these supposed morons engaged in what appeared to be original thought, I said to myself, these guys are highly misinformed.
At least according to my knowledge. Where are these guys getting these arguments from, like there was some kind of alternative universe with alternative facts. Was history in gravity optional over there, I don’t know. But I needed to know, like I wanted to know. And as it turns out, I had no idea about digital echo chambers, that same target marketing algorithm that feeds you more of the products you like to buy, also feeds you more than the news that you like to hear.
I had been living in an online universe that just reflected my worldview back to me. So my timeline was pretty liberal. I had no Breitbart, or info Wars or Fox News. No, I was all MSNBC and the DAILY SHOW and CNN in The GRILL, right? Well, these trolls were hopping the dimensional doorway and I needed to figure out how?
The Ghost Profile
I decided to do it. I tricked the Facebook Algorithm and defeated me with more news that i didn’t necessarily agree with. This worked for a while, but it wasn’t enough because my online footprint had already established the patterns that I like to hear. So, with the anonymity of the internet, I went undercover. I set up this ghost profile and went crazy.
On a practical level it was very simple, but on an emotional level It was kind of daunting.
Especially with the racist vitriol that I had experienced. But what I didn’t realize is that my trolls were thickening my skin making me immune to viewpoints that I didn’t necessarily agree with and so I didn’t react to the same things as I would have several months prior.
The Ghost Profile On YouTube
All right, so I pressed on noticing that this stuff also worked on YouTube, I became Lucious25, Quite A Supremacist Lurker.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Digitally I began to infiltrate the infamous Alt-right movement. Now, my doppelganger was Edgar Rice Burroughs’s, John Carter character. A sci-fi hero who was once a confederate soldier. Years ago, I would have needed acting training and makeup and a fake ID. Now I could just learn lurk.
I started a little info war. I went on into some American renaissance; National Vanguard Alliance; I started commenting on videos. I started talking bad about our Al.Sharpton and Black lives matter movement. I started bemoaning Race Baiters like Eric Holder; and United States Ex-President Barack Obama. I started mirroring the Anti-black sentiments that were thrown at me and to be honest, it was kind of exhilarating.
Trolls
I would literally spend days clicking through my new racist profile. I began goofing off at work. While in Aryan Land, it was something else. If so, I then started visiting some of the pages of my former trolls. And, a lot of these guys would just have regular jobs, a lot of outdoorsmen hunters, computer nerds. Some of them were family guys showing videos of their families online. I mean, for all, I know some of y’all could be in his room right now, right? But when I went undercover, I found a lovely plethora of luminaries like Milo Janopoulos. Richard Stinson and David Duke. All of these guys were thought leaders in their own right, but over time, the alt-right movement ended up using their information to fuel their momentum and I’m going to tell you what else led to the momentum of the alt-right., the left wings, wholesale demonization of everything, white and male. If you are a pale skin penis packing male, you’re in league with satan.
Brand History
I’m going to make a bold statement and say Would you believe that? Some people find that offensive. The fact is that millennials get a lifetime of diagram brand history. I mean, America seems to be hell bent on filling its textbooks.
With cliff notes versions of its dark past this severely decontextualized race and the anger associated with it. And that is fertile ground for all facts to grow. Add in the wild landscape of the internet and uh, it’s easy to sell rebranded mind comp ideas to a generation who has been failed by public schools.
A lot of these ideas are easily debunked. Alt facts have that quality. However, One thing kept screaming at me to the subtext of those arguments and that was Why should i be hated for who? I cannot help, but that was a black man in America that resonated with me.
I’ve spent so much time defending myself against attempts to demonize me and make me apologize for who I am trying to portray me as something that I’m not some kind of thug or gangster menace to society. Unexpected compassion.
Now listen, the historical source of the demonization, black males and white males, is highly different and where you fall on this argument tends to be an accident of birth. Now, you’re probably surprised by this perspective. I’m surprised too. Never in a billion years did I think that I could have some kind of compassion for people who hated my guts.
Now mind you, not end up with compassion wanting to be friends. I don’t have infinite olive branches extended to people who would not want to see me on this planet, right? But just enough compassion to understand how they got to where they are. And to be honest, there were a couple of fair points. One of them. How do liberals have this wide acceptance for everybody? Except for those with honestly held conservative viewpoints. Heaven forbid, you love god, this country and mean it, right?
White Genocide
And another thing that they talked about was this fear that they had of something that they labeled as white genocide, That diversity will be a force that will wipe them out. Now listen. I know what it is to fear for the fate of your people between crack, aids, gang violence mass and conservation gentrification police shootings.
Black people have more than enough reasons to stay up at night. But if nature is into diversity, and you’re not; you’re going to lose that fight, buddy.
You see, nature doesn’t care about your race. Man-made nature just cares about healthy organisms and your precious ethnic features are expendable to that end. So, the moment that you let go of that racist identity and latch on to humanity all your problems go away.
Echo Chambers
I’m gonna tell you what race ain’t about to die out. Join the party. The water is great. Into the water, gets too high, but that’s another tan talk. The point is, to get to this point of understanding, you have to let go of that fear and embrace your curiosity and sadly, too many people will not take that journey to see the world from the other side.
I mean, let’s be honest, that doesn’t just go for progressives. But also to the right winging conservatives, you know, it’s fair if some of their points were, it was still trapped in their own echo chambers. Recycling old outdated points of view, never getting a diversity in perspective.
Not making them well-rounded in the world view. So they’re not hearing certain anti-racist and political voices, voices, like, Tim Wise and Michelle Alexander, Dr. Joy Deboyce Watkins, Tareek Nasheed.
All of these voices have the answers to the questions that they want. But unfortunately, they will not hear them due to the power of these echo chambers.
Courageous Conversations
We have got to break out of these digital divides. Because as our technology advances, the consequences of our tribalism become more dangerous and this whole experience taught me our gadgets ain’t going to save us. All these technological devices. They only master the universe out there. Not the universe inside of me.
Is so that’s on IQ, not EQ. That’s a dangerous imbalance. Where do you get the emotional intelligence, the character development, the virtues of patients forbearance compassion, you know. The things that make sure that these devices, however, advance become a blessing and not a curse. Seems to me that humanity itself needs an upgrade.
From the beginning, we’ve dreamed of creating a better future. Now we’re setting out to be carbon neutral by 2050. And we’re gonna keep dreams, no matter where we go.
That’s a big task, understandably. I don’t believe in any kind of unbeatable monster. There was no giant out there without perhaps a simple Achilles heel. One of the best ways to actually overcome this is to have courageous conversations with difficult people, people who do not see the world the same way that you see the world.
Oh yes. Folks conversations may be indeed the key to that upgrade because remember Language was the first form of virtual reality. It is literally a symbolic representation of the physical world. And through this device, we change the physical world. Keep in mind conversation, stop violence, conversations start countries.
They build bridges and when the chips are down conversations are the last tool that humans use before they pick up the guns, And I am not talking about online safe space conversations from these security of your laptop.
No. I’m talking about those in your face conversations for real breathing people. And for me this looks like running a community forum called Shop-Talk live in a barber shop, talking live. We have the conversations that change lives, we meet the community, right, where they are. And we’ve done everything from diverting gang violence in real time-to-help to find people jobs to mentoring homeless youth. And the reason why we needed to do this is because there was a severe lack of trust in the black community.
My community is affected by the violence of the crack era. And so we ended up taking the agency into our own hands. Solving our own problems, not waiting for anybody else. And the truth is from the mayor to the fellum felon. You’re going to find them in that barber shop. And so what we did was just organize what was already going on.
And so, when I started mining, these alternative viewpoints from these alternative digital universes dissected them. Breaking them down into controversial, talking points, then with my cell phone, I flipped the internet against itself and began to broadcast these live conversations to my online followers. This made them want to leave the safety of their laptops and meet us in person to have real conversations with real people in real life.
We built bridges to so many other communities from the LGBT COMMUNITY to the ARAB IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY and even sat down for somebody with a CONFEDERATE FLAG, on their hat and talked about the things that actually matter. It’s time that we stop trying to hack our way around the human experience. There is no way out of each other. Stop trying to find one. We have to understand something. Human beings all want the same things and we have to go through each other to get these things.
These courageous conversations are the way these bridges are built. It is time that we start seeing people as people and simply the ideas that we project onto them over react to human beings are not the barriers, but the gateways of the very things that we want.
Collective Conscious Evolution
- This is. A collective and conscious evolution of my journey.
- I began with a terribly popular cell phone video.
- Then a fallen friend.
- Your journey begins right about now.
- Join the Renaissance and Human connection.
- It is going to happen with or without your suggestions.
- Take a topic and start a community dialogue in your neck of the woods.
- Meet folks back in real life.
- I’m going to tell you to trick the algorithm of your existence,
- Get some diversified experiences.
- It is time to grow people.
When we do this, it will be clear that the key to this upgrade was always our inner world, not some device that we create and the doorways to this experience are now and will forever be each other.
PACE TULSA 