Eegore
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Relative to crime overall, instances of actual white supremacy crimes are tiny, but the nation’s number one long-term acute care facility (aka The White House) says it’s the number one domestic threat so do numbers actually matter?
I would say yes. In your example the "number one domestic threat" is not the largest volume domestic threat. "Number-one" of something in the context the White House tends to use it has nothing to do with how many. It's a perception thing.
For instance if a single one-armed red-headed Eskimo from Australia had a functional, disguised, nuclear warhead in the US, he would be the "number-one threat" to US citizens, while being the statistically lowest mathematically probable human on the planet to exist in the US at all.
The numbers matter when used in context, if White Supremacist groups mathematically caused more death, or general harm, those are the numbers that matter in context to "number one" threat claim.
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