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Extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views". [1] The term is primarily used in a political or religious sense to refer to an ideology that is considered (by the speaker or by some implied shared social consensus) to be far outside the mainstream attitudes of society. [2]
Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, is an umbrella term [1] that encompasses a range of ideologies that are typically marked by radical conservatism, authoritarianism, ultra-nationalism, and nativism. [2]
Over the broader 2009 to 2018 time period, a total of 313 people were killed by right-wing extremists in the United States (the crimes included ideologically and non-ideologically motivated homicides), of those homicides, 76% of them were committed by white supremacists, 19% of them were committed by anti-government extremists (including those ...
The definition describes extremism as “the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance” that aims to “negate or destroy the fundamental rights and ...
Far-left politics, also known as extreme left politics or left-wing extremism, are politics further to the left on the left–right political spectrum than the standard political left. The term does not have a single, coherent definition; some scholars consider it to be the left of communist parties , while others broaden it to include the left ...
The agency has for a decade consistently had around 1,000 active investigations into Islamist extremists annually, but more than doubled its investigations into fringe political extremist threats ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. Political ideologies favoring social hierarchy "Right-wing", "Political right", and "The Right" redirect here. For the term used in sport, see Winger (sports). For political freedoms, see Civil and political rights. For other uses, see Right (disambiguation). Part of the Politics series ...
The roots of extremism in Indiana and the United States run deep, but the ascension of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s pushed the issue into the modern public consciousness.