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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 06:55 PM Mar 2019

Broken white men and the racist media that fuels their terrorism

At 1.40pm local time, a man who identified himself as Brenton Tarrant burst into a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, and possibly another, shooting and killing upwards of dozens of panicked and huddled Muslim worshippers at point-blank range shortly before Friday prayers began, laughing insanely as he carried out what can only be described as IS-level violence.

We know this much because the Australian gunman live-streamed his grotesque terrorist attack to his Facebook account.

What we do know about Tarrant, however, at least based on his social media accounts, is his profile reads as the sum total of every counter-terrorism practitioner's and academic's fear, one that law-enforcement agencies throughout the Western hemisphere have long warned to be the No. 1 terror threat: right-wing extremism.

More specifically, Tarrant represents the dangerous convergence between broken white men and extreme right-wing media, bearing in mind that 100 per cent of all terrorist attacks carried out on US soil in 2018 were carried out by right-wing extremists, with the Southern Poverty Law Centre crediting a “toxic combination of political polarisation, anti-immigrant sentiment and modern technologies that help spread propaganda online”.

These kind of attacks are being carried out in increased frequency and ferocity in mosques, synagogues, and black churches throughout the Western world, with a notable common denominator: the gunmen are always white, male and fuelled by consumption of right-wing media.

“Well, it's time to stop shitposting and time to make a real life effort post. I will carry out an attack against the invaders, and will even live stream the attack via Facebook link,” Tarrant warned on the far-right online forum 8Chan on Thursday, which included links to what he called his “writings”.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/white-broken-men-the-20190315-p514ml.html

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Broken white men and the racist media that fuels their terrorism (Original Post) Blue_Tires Mar 2019 OP
Does anyone else find it odd that these caucasian men Haggis for Breakfast Mar 2019 #1
i have been on other sites (not all political) but have seen comments from right wingers from europe JI7 Mar 2019 #3
Those "broken white men" are narcissists with a massive sense of entitlement meow2u3 Mar 2019 #2

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
1. Does anyone else find it odd that these caucasian men
Fri Mar 15, 2019, 10:16 PM
Mar 2019

murdering innocents in the defense of protecting the white race, are doing it in countries not originally populated by white men ?

JI7

(89,246 posts)
3. i have been on other sites (not all political) but have seen comments from right wingers from europe
Sun Mar 17, 2019, 05:54 AM
Mar 2019

these fuckers think they have a bigger right to the US than mexicans and other hispanics whose ancestors have been here long before any white person was here.

they cheer on trump and the wall. talk about how their country is ruined by "invasions" by other people. attack liberals and multiculturalism . hate feminists.

meow2u3

(24,761 posts)
2. Those "broken white men" are narcissists with a massive sense of entitlement
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 11:03 AM
Mar 2019

These guys are losers in life who think they deserve to be on the top of some imagined racial hierarchy just because of the color of their skin. Those losers don't think they have to earn respect, loyalty, or trust; they think everything should be handed to them unearnedly and undeservedly.
I wouldn't be surprised if they had been fired from one job after another in part because of insubordination or other workplace misconduct and in part because of problems with drugs and/or alcohol. This idea that POC are taking over is nothing but a lame excuse to justify the evil and hate in their hearts and refusal to take responsibility for their own personal failings.

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