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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:48 - They self-radicalize the same way a white teen or early 20s would - online. They get exposed to an ideology and then go way down the rabbit hole with it, and there’s an easy pipeline from semi-mainstream conservative views to serious fascist BS. I remember reading an article awhile back about a guy who created himself a brand new FB account and followed a few regular conservative pages like Fox News, Breitbart, some of the Fox hosts, Trump, etc. It didn’t take long at all for him to be served with basically White Supremecist content. That was just a thought exercise basically, now imagine if you did hold some of those views and Twitter or FB or whatever just kept feeding you more and more extremist content.

White Hispanics - of which there are A LOT in Texas in particular, mostly Mexicans - are [b]basically indistinguishable from white Americans of European descent. As can be some South American immigrants. [/b]My boss at my first job for example was Peruvian and I was “darker” than her and I’m mostly Eastern European and Italian in heritage. Many of these Mexican-Americans have been in the US for many generations and it’s a different type of culture than Hispanics/Latinos in other parts of the country who tend to be somewhat newer immigrants from Caribbean and other Central American countries. Anyway - no doubt this shooter saw himself as white. In Texas, the people he interacted with probably saw him as white too.

It doesn’t always make logical sense, but he was so radicalized that it’s past being logical. Maybe the old KKK wouldn’t accept a white Mexican-American white supremecist, but the online WS/“alt-right”/men’s rights type of spaces don’t really care. [/quote]

Sounds like propagandists of "white supremacy plague" are twisting themselves into pretzels to support their propaganda of "violent white supremacy thugs" exterminating minorities.  It sounds so desperate to use this case as white supremacy that it literally resembles an old SNL skit of a blind AA guy joining KKK, because he can't see he is black. [/quote]

The old way of thinking about right wing violent extremists - like, KKK, Neo-Nazi, racial purity type stuff - doesn’t apply anymore IMO. There was a time when they were all white but that time has passed. It’s a meeting of a whole bunch of online movements now. Men’s rights, racism, fascism, anti-LGBT especially T, gun rights, people advocating for basically a Christian theocracy in the US or whatever other liberal Democratic country they live in … it’s just a lot of stuff all loosely connected and rolled up into one movement and as long as you follow some/most of it, you’ll have a place.

He held radical political beliefs and, CRITICALLY, he also had very easy access to guns. Lots of people have these views but only in the US do they have access to military-grade weapons to carry out attacks. Basically I think this mentality is closer to ISIS and other terrorist groups which will drive a car bomb into a crowded shopping center just to kill people vs. trying to ration out, oh he’s non-white but he was still a white supremacist, how is that possible because IMO that’s not what’s going on in a lot of these cases. Some yes but it now seems to be about indiscriminate killing. [/quote]

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