I see nothing wrong with people acquiring a left-wing political lens as a result of their own independent thought process (which, by the way, has nothing to do with universities, regardless of what the right-wing talking points you're referencing say; the shooter went to a trade school).

And in any case, a significant majority of political violence is caused by right-wing extremists. Of course the DOJ just deleted that report because it was inconvenient to their narrative.

https://people.com/department-of-justice-quietly-deletes-stu...

▲ themaninthedark 7 hours ago | parent [-]

So earlier I took a look at the wiki list of Domestic Terrorism incidents.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_Un...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45207030

Over the last 40 years: 8/16 attacks on that list are linked to White Supremacists(Counting OKC) ~50%

In the last 15 years, again about 50% are linked to White Supremacists and ~41% linked to Radical Islam.

▲ gusgus01 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Are you analyzing the list of "Notable Domestic Terrorist Attacks" on that page? Which has already been filtered by some criteria of notability?

A more complete list is actually prompted at the top of that section and is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_Stat....

However, you've possibly read that already since you're 41% number appears to be sourced from that page and is specifically talking about deaths and not events from 9/11/2001 to 2017. That 41% is heavily influenced by the deadliest event which was the Orlando Shooting, and if you look at the overall picture, 73% of events were perpetrated by white supremacists.

Honestly, directly reading the GAO study and the other, more recent, studies is a lot more illuminating and illustrates the growing issue of white supremacy and far-right political violence.

▲ nobody9999 an hour ago | parent [-]

The link you referenced[0] also includes this:

   A 2017 report by The Nation Institute and the Center for Investigative 
   Reporting analyzed a list of the terrorist incidents which occurred in the US 
   between 2008 and 2016.[27] It found:[28]

   115 far-right inspired terrorist incidents. 35% of these incidents were 
   foiled (this number means that no terrorist attacks occurred) and 29% of them 
   resulted in fatalities. These incidents caused 79 deaths.
   
   63 Islamist inspired terrorist incidents. 76% of these terrorist incidents 
   were foiled (this number means that no terrorist attacks occurred) and 13% of 
   them resulted in fatalities. These incidents caused 90 deaths.

   19 far-left inspired terrorist incidents. 20% of these terrorist incidents 
   were foiled (this number means that no terrorist attacks occurred) and 10% of 
   them resulted in fatalities. Two of these incidents were described as 
   "plausibly" attributed to a perpetrator with left-wing sympathies and caused 
   7 deaths. These are not included in the official government database.[15]

So out of 197 incidents reported between 2008 and 2016, 58% were "Far Right" inspired, 32% were "Islamist" inspired and 10% were "Far left" inspired.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_Stat...