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omnichaos posted...

Take note of which Muslim majority countries you don't see on this list, because they were too dangerous to poll in.

Alright. I've taken note of them.

What exactly are you expecting me to do with this information?

You're spitting out a bunch of factoids without connecting them with an argument, then you're asking me questions about them and about my views.

omnichaos posted...

Now note the level of outrage that is acceptable towards white supremacy on this website in comparison to Islamism.

Probably because white supremacy is an evil much closer to home (same reason why Harvey and Irma are getting tonnes of press, while the 2004 tsunami that killed almost a quarter of a million people got significantly less attention). On that note...

omnichaos posted...

Which do you think is a larger problem on this planet right now? White supremacy, or Islamism?

Depends entirely on where you are in the world.

If you live, for instance, in the middle east, white supremacy probably slots in somewhere between "lightning strikes" and "being mauled to death by penguins" on your "things to worry about" list. Similarly, if you live in the West, you are far, far more likely to fall victim to a white supremacist or other right-wing extremist than to an Islamic extremist.

(since we're all about the biting graphics now, here's a good one on the subject: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIsIrzWW4AAtPvd.jpg )

In both cases the risks aren't zero (Islamic extremists have killed a few hundred people in America over the past decade, and a surprisingly high number of white supremacists have military backgrounds, meaning they could feasibly wind up in the Middle East), but each one has their sphere of influence and they happen to be on opposite sides of the world. So if you're wondering why people get so worked up about white supremacists, but treat Islamic extremists like just another piece of news, that's why - most of the death and destruction wrought by Islamic extremists is taking place in countries far away from home (and most of their victims are their own kin and countrymen, rather than ours), whereas the White Supremacists are right in our backyard, making them both more dangerous (to us) and much harder to ignore.

If you're talking on a global scale, yes, the Islamic extremists win - they have far better organization and more resources than white supremacists and their overall death toll is significantly higher, whereas most of the White Supremacists are raging man-children from poor households seeking someone to blame for why their life is shit.

But I still fail to see where you're going with this comparison. It's sort of like asking "Who's killed more, Islamic extremists or school shooters?" - just because Islamic extremists win that contest doesn't mean that school shooters aren't horrible fucking monsters who deserve every bit of our scorn for preying on society's most vulnerable. We don't need to have some sort of Olympics of Awfulness to figure out who we're supposed to despise the most - we're allowed to multitask here.
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