Does the online far-right enable terrorism?

It's been a notable thing recently that a lot of the recent mass shootings are by people who were knee deep in online cultures such as 4 chan.

By 'ironically' talking about awful things, the most rightwards section of the Internet seems to be a cultivating ground for these people. I have met people on SW who I think would have been part of this radicalisation process.

It starts with theories of cultural war between peoples, moves to etno nationalism and ends with what happened in New Zealand.

Do the Christchurch shootings expose the murderous nature of ‘ironic’ online fascism?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/mar/15/do-the-christchurch-shootings-expose-the-murderous-nature-of-ironic-online-fascism?

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kayle · 70-79, M

The number of school shootings in the US have increased dramatically since the Internet became public. Hard to think there isn't a connection.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@kayle If you know that one of the most important inventions to spread ideas is the "wordpress"? Ages ago, monks or scriptures were busy for months to duplicate one important work. When the press got introduced, believe systems had the perfect tool to spread like wild fire. But people still need to read the tombs that were produced, time to read, time to travel the material, time to produce, ... it all took time, and ideas spread faster but still slowly in comparisson what we have now.

If a book is published today, you can get the PDF version in a matter of seconds.

Most people also don't read books, like doing real research is just not part of most peoples free time. After working hours they ussually need to take care of their family their house, etc. Then they have a bit of free time. This free time is spend doing what ever they "like" and a lot of people do things that gives enjoyment. So most bits and pieces that inform you of "reality" they get from newssites that dumb down facts and events to a 3 to 5 minute clip of data. There is verry little in depth thinking. Other people totally disregard the news, because journalists are all fake and left and ... well you know the rhetoric. (And this I believe is the worst thing Trump did, is a frontal political attack on the press and totally discredit everyone that is critical)

Then you have youtube, fora and other sites. Where people try to digest clips that don't take too long (hell if I write a to long message people already complain that I'm boring, because taking the effort just ain't part of the mindset today). A lot of these (not all) are people that are informed by these dumbdowned clips of news. I watched a Sargon of Akkad video about the betrayal of the Brexit Referendum yesterday, his entire "source" material excisted out of newssites.

And all this badly researched non-critical information gets spread by the speed of light trough glassfiber networks? ... And a lot of this information contains believe systems that if you push them to a radical extend are just toxic. I mean, what do people really expect to happen? This is not a "common occurence" but people that got so sucked in into this thoughtbubble with a terrible badly researched dataset that start believing their own crap... what outcome do you think it might produce?

On one of our WW2 Holocaust monuments (and museum) over here you can find the following wisdome:

[i]Watch your thoughts for they become words.
Watch your words for they become actions.
Watch your actions for they become habits.
Watch your habits for they become your character.
And watch your character for it becomes your destiny.[/i]

People should think about this more.
Specially english speakers, that use the word "hate" as if it's normal to hear it 50 times a day. There are other synonyms. You don't hate a certain food, you just prefer not to eat it, or dislike it tastes. Hate is way worst then all the rest you use, but because of lazyness "hate" and "love" are the go too words in a lot of peoples vocabulary these days. As an outsider... I think it's pretty sad and dangerous in the long run.