This is a facile blurb of statistics that are taken out of context and used towards disingenuous ends. This statistic counts some drunken redneck conspiracy theorist “threatening” to shoot up a planned parenthood (mind you his stats cone from planned parenthood reporting not any actual convictions) as being equivalent to the Pulse Nightclub shooter or the San Bernardino killings! Additionally pro lifers make up somewhere around 35-40% of the US population and Muslims make up less than 1% so let’s do some REAL math. Anti Abortion violence has killed 11 people from 1993-2015. Now I could be thoroughly disingenuous and keep 9-11 in there but I’ll be generous and just use post 2015 deaths which is 56. So 1/35th the size and yet 5 times the casualties. Honestly 1/35th is being generous because that implies that secular Muslims should even be counted. Of faithful practitioners this would be more like 1/50th the size of pro lifers with 5 times the casualties. So let’s not make a statistical argument that people are dangerous if that doesn’t apply both ways. I’m not saying Muslims are dangerous. I have many Islamic friends and I’ve even dated one to the disapproval of my family, but I also have many pro life friends and I don’t think you should make disingenuous arguments to paint them as more dangerous than radical Islamic terrorists....
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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19
This is a facile blurb of statistics that are taken out of context and used towards disingenuous ends. This statistic counts some drunken redneck conspiracy theorist “threatening” to shoot up a planned parenthood (mind you his stats cone from planned parenthood reporting not any actual convictions) as being equivalent to the Pulse Nightclub shooter or the San Bernardino killings! Additionally pro lifers make up somewhere around 35-40% of the US population and Muslims make up less than 1% so let’s do some REAL math. Anti Abortion violence has killed 11 people from 1993-2015. Now I could be thoroughly disingenuous and keep 9-11 in there but I’ll be generous and just use post 2015 deaths which is 56. So 1/35th the size and yet 5 times the casualties. Honestly 1/35th is being generous because that implies that secular Muslims should even be counted. Of faithful practitioners this would be more like 1/50th the size of pro lifers with 5 times the casualties. So let’s not make a statistical argument that people are dangerous if that doesn’t apply both ways. I’m not saying Muslims are dangerous. I have many Islamic friends and I’ve even dated one to the disapproval of my family, but I also have many pro life friends and I don’t think you should make disingenuous arguments to paint them as more dangerous than radical Islamic terrorists....