>> Mass killings linked to ideological extremism has spiked in
the United States over the last decade and
that's according to a new report that was published by the Anti-Defamation League.
Now white supremacist, ideology happens to be a playing a bigger role overall
when it comes to this spike in extremist killings which is pretty terrifying and
I have a theory as to why it's happening.
But first, let's give you the details.
The researchers here found that the number of US mass killings tied to
extremism was at least three times higher in the past ten years than
the total from any other ten-year period since the 1970s, okay?
So there's clearly a spike and I think we can notice it in the headlines, and
the stories that are covered on the show.
So let's take a look at this graph that kind of helps you visualize it
a little better.
So from the 1970s through the 2000s, extremist mass killing
incidents were consistently pretty low from two to seven incidents a decade.
However, in the 2010s, the number of mass killing incidents,
actually, skyrocketed to 21.
In 2021 and 2022, there have already been five incidents as
many as there were during the whole decade of 2001 to 2010.
So this is not good, I've got more details from the report for you.
But Cenk,
I think I have a theory as to why there's been such a spike over the last decade.
>> Okay, I'm curious what your theory is, cuz the answer is obvious.
There's 120 guns for every 100 people in America, but
give me the nuance on your turn.
>> Right, but just having possession of a gun doesn't automatically mean that you're
gonna shoot people with it, right?
>> A certain percentage.
>> Okay >> But yeah.
>> So I think that there's something going on.
Look, the conditions that Americans are living in get worse every single year.
Every year, it gets worse, okay?
>> Yeah.
>> At the same time on the right, you have this entire media infrastructure
that it's a chorus of people who are constantly blaming the heartache,
the suffering that Americans are facing or dealing with on the others or
on whatever scapegoat they wanna point to, right?
>> Yeah.
>> Whether it's the immigrants, transgender people, people, black people.
I mean, you name it, that's all you hear in right-wing media.
So on one hand, you have people who are kind of primed to be radicalized in that
way because of what they're experiencing in their personal lives.
And they're being misdirected by the chorus of right-wing media,
blaming their troubles on various powerless groups of people.
I think that's what's happening.
>> That's definitely true.
Great theory and guys, here's a trip.
Because since Muslims feel like the others,
we never talk about it in this context.
But why do you think Muslim terrorists do what they do?
It's because they were told by their right-wing media that we're the bad guys,
Americans are the bad guys.
The problem isn't Muslim leaders, it's the others.
Except in this case, America is the others.
And I did a story on this and pulled together a lot of different sources and
showed that unfortunately, the way that some portion of the Islamic world,
god radicalize was through media.
It was media that the Saudis and the Americans funded to radicalize Muslims,
partly to radicalize afghans to fight back against Russia a long time ago in
that war.
And so they're right-wing media were like it's America's fault.
It's America's fault, it's the west's fault.
Go bomb them, go bomb them and it worked.
And here in America, we have right-wing media doing the same thing.
But instead, they're pointing it internally instead of externally.
Now it's external to them, they're saying white people are the good people, right?
He's black people, a brown people and gay people, etc.
And look at that there's shootings that gay nightclubs and
Jewish temples and- >> At synagogue.
>> And a black store and a black church, etc.,
because they were told those are your problems.
It's inside the country, but they feel like it's outside their wagons because
those are the others and they go attack them.
And they've got the tools right there, cuz they all have guns.
>> Now between 2010 and 2020, 164 people died in ideological
extremist-related mass killings, according to the report.
That's much more than in any other decade, except the 1990s when
the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City killed 168 people.
>> Also, by the way, by a right-wing extremist.
>> Right, exactly and in addition to this increase in the number of incidents,
the dominant ideological drivers have changed over time as well.
So let's take a look at this interactive map,
because it's gonna help you kinda see what's going on here.
So the red dots are Islamic extremists,
blue are left-wing and purple are right-wing.
Now during the past 12 years, right-wing extremists have conducted
the most mass killings, totaling 16 of the 26 incidents.
So 61.5 and 89 of the 186 deaths, 47.8%.
Now the majority of the attacks by right-wing extremists were committed by
white supremacist,
typically targeting minorities killing 71 people in that time period.
>> And in 2022, every single extremist attack was by the right-wing.
And so look, guys in the old days, were there left-wing extremists?
Absolutely, so there's been animal rights activists.
There's been environmental activists.
There has been the Black Panthers had a lot of positive things, but
they also had some wing that was extremists.
And by the way, my family got chased out of Turkey by left-wing extremists.
So of course you could have left-wing extremists.
But recently in America, that hasn't been the case at all, okay?
And the numbers are stark, it's not close.
It's all right-wing extremists now.
And partly because it goes back to media, who's egging on people to do what?
Remember the Rwandan genocide, that was driven by radio where they were telling
them, go attack the others, go attack the others and people listen to them.
Left-wing media in this country is, well, you're looking at it and
a couple of other smaller outlets, right?
And we constantly tell you guys don't do anything physical.
If you do anything physical, that means you're not a progressive, etc., right?
Right-wing media is much larger.
They've got Fox News and a bunch of other places, and
they're constantly telling you.
Remember your Second Amendment rights, you gotta fight against government tyranny.
Those who are destroying this country to wokeness is and critical race theory is,
and trans kids are.
They're destroying, destroying, destroying it.
Aren't you gonna do anything with your Second Amendment rights?
And then lo and behold, people are like, yeah, those guns that will pick one up and
I'll attack the people they told me to attack.
It's not at all complicated.
The only reason why you have a debate over it is cuz then right-wing media after
the fact will come in and go, how dare you blame us?
Don't believe your lying eyes, that's outrageous to blame us.
Now, go attack them again.
>> And look, I don't think that there's anything that can be done
about right-wing media honestly.
What are you gonna do?
There's nothing you can do about it.
But in terms of what the left could control, can control.
And when I say left, I don't just mean leftists.
Leftists have no power in this country.
Mostly mean Democrats, right?
They like to point to these issues, certainly,
at least pretend to be concerned about it, right?
Maybe they are concerned about it, but the only thing that Democrats can
do is actually change the material conditions that allow for
people to be radicalized with this extremist ideology.
Do you get what I'm saying?
>> Yeah, no, look, Democrats don't even fight back effectively.
I mean, they fight back on identity politics and make a mess of it.
>> Absolutely. >> And then it divides us even further,
but they never get to the core of any of these issues.
>> Exactly. >> So for example, in on gun regulation,
they even try to pretend that Biden did historic gun reform.
It passed like the weakest things.
I don't even remember they were so weak, they floated away in a cloud.
It was so weak.
That was the only time I've ever seen mainstream media not call it historic.
Biden tried to call it historic and
I think even the reporters were like I just can't write it down.
This is really historic, right?
So the Democrats do almost nothing and whereas the right-wing media and
right-wing politicians come out super strong and bulldoze everyone, and
at least to these results.