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Nevilledog

(51,122 posts)
Mon Nov 21, 2022, 02:16 AM Nov 2022

There Are No Lone Wolves

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/opinion/us-white-supremacy-violence.html

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https://archive.ph/ZSPec

Sometime in May 2020, Payton Gendron, a 16-year-old in upstate New York, was browsing the website 4chan when he came across a GIF.

It was taken from a livestream recording made the previous year by a gunman as he killed 51 people and wounded more than 40 others at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The killer had written a manifesto explaining that he was motivated by the fear of great replacement theory, the racist belief that secretive forces are importing nonwhite people to dilute countries’ white majorities.

Seeing the video and the manifesto “started my real research into the problems with immigration and foreigners in our white lands — without his livestream I would likely have no idea about the real problems the West is facing,” Mr. Gendron wrote in his own manifesto, posted on the internet shortly before, officials say, he drove to a Tops grocery store in Buffalo and carried out a massacre of his own that left 10 Black people dead.

The authorities say Mr. Gendron’s attack in May mimicked the massacre in Christchurch not just in its motivation but also in tactics. He reduced his caloric intake and cataloged his diet to prepare physically, as the Christchurch killer did. He practiced shooting. He wrote slogans on his rifle, as the Christchurch gunman did. He livestreamed his attack with a GoPro camera attached to his helmet, with the idea of inspiring other attacks by fellow extremists. Mr. Gendron’s screed ran to 180 pages, with 23 percent of those pages copied word-for-word from the Christchurch killer’s manifesto, according to an investigative report on the attacks released last month by New York’s attorney general, Letitia James.

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There Are No Lone Wolves (Original Post) Nevilledog Nov 2022 OP
K&R Solly Mack Nov 2022 #1
KNR niyad Nov 2022 #2
Stochastic terrorism. And for gods' sake, New Zealand terrorist: the Maoris were there fitst Hekate Nov 2022 #3
And Native Americans were here FIRST KS Toronado Nov 2022 #4
Yes indeed Hekate Nov 2022 #5
White lands my black ass malaise Nov 2022 #6

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
3. Stochastic terrorism. And for gods' sake, New Zealand terrorist: the Maoris were there fitst
Mon Nov 21, 2022, 03:34 AM
Nov 2022

“Our white lands” — gag me with a spoon

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