Mumbles
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Oh, I meant the far-left groups, not the black nationalists groups. I know that sometimes it's confusing for people on the left and right, but Muslim and black nationalist terror and/or hate groups aren't far-left groups (normally). There is also the issue of why to separate out Islamist groups from the far-right, but not Dominionists and the like. I don't have a problem with it, but I can see the argument against it as having some validity. The murders from the guy who BLM wouldn't let join them does put a HUGE outlier in, depending on how one classifies it. That's one reason for the error range, as in where do those eight deaths actually fall? (The data stops in 2016, so the Portland killings aren't there either, and who knows where those two deaths belong.)
Fair enough - it's entirely possible I simply missed that the first time. I wouldn't put the black separatist groups on either - I suppose they tend to lean conservative socially, but most of their rhetoric is simply off the charts entirely. I suppose they often occupy the same realm as Alex Jones and the like - more interested in bizarre psuedoscience and conspiracy theory than anything else.