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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People, mentally “well” young men are being radicalized online. They don’t have to be clinically depressed or anxious or bipolar. This boy was raised in a gun filled household, but no  child is safe from these influences online.

Pay attention. Several of us have shared links and informative posts. Stop arguing and read them. YOUR boys are at risk too.

Learn about Gamer Gate.
Learn about Nick Fuentes.
Understand Pepe the Frog memes.
Learn about the other hate groups. 
Educate your boys to stay away from this garbage.

Boys are being radicalized and desensitized.  They are becoming racist, misogynistic, and violent even if you think you raised them differently.  Talk to them about what they see online .

https://gnet-research.org/2022/10/24/extreme-right-radicalisation-of-children-via-online-gaming-platforms/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-15/alt-right-groups-video-games-radicalising-young-men-extremism/101212494

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/mar/24/video-games-cant-escape-their-role-in-the-radicalisation-of-young-men

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It’s so scary. Back in the day, we saw Muslim youth being radicalized in this way. Middle class kids with seemingly stable home lives would up and join Isis. You would see those stories and wonder what the heck happened. These were not  your typical suicide bombers with nothing left to lose. They had bright future ahead of them. And now we are seeing this same type of radicalization across races. The ideology is irrelevant. The isolation, the hate, the cycling into despair- those are the common themes. Apparently our young men are susceptible. [/quote]

It has a lot to do with feeling othered or having others guilt or resentment pushed on to you. I think some white men feel othered or out of place in the dominant society due to messages of demonization or white privilege/straight  white males being  colonizers or evil/the patriarchy. Muslim males also have a similar issue where they certainly are othered and demonized.  Same with black men. Even with trans.

When you’re thought to be “the problem”, you tend to internalize that and act out.

Women/girls are not demonized the way men are[/quote]
Interesting, I don’t know if you remember prior to the internet and social media, we had ‘others’ who actually didn’t all turn into psychopathic killers. They just went along with life being the ‘other’. People were more apt to converse with them because the internet wasn’t telling the rest of us how to be and what type of person to engage with. We were free. [/quote]

You can directly link the rise of white male violence/mass shootings to the election of Pres Obama. That’s when the mass shootings started  to spike in this country.. it was like instead of 9/11 we got lots of random mass shootings instead. Maybe it’s related to the rise of tech and not just Obama but it all started then.  The perceived “loss of control” or becoming the “minority/marginalized” group doesn’t have to be real to be believed. There are apparently men that believed it.

Lately, during the Trump admin, we have seen the rise of a few apparently trans shooters. That’s no accident either. They feel they are losing control.

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Obama and/or more likely the internet.[/quote]

This is false.  There was no surge in mass shootings when Obama got elected.  However what did happen is that there was more coverage of mass shootings, which created a perception of a surge, along with a lot of rhetoric that Obama was going to confiscate everyones guns.  Skip forward to the present and the reality is that Obama confiscated 0 guns and it was all hyperbolic nonsense from the right wing.  As usual.[/quote]

I don’t remember any mass shootings from the Bush years with the exception of Virginia Tech and the dc sniper [/quote]
Mass shootings really intensified with Columbine which was mid 90s. The internet was in its infancy. Prior to Columbine they were really few and decades between. [/quote]

Mass shootings and school shootings were not a thing until our politicians let the assault weapons ban expire instead of renewing it.  We reap what they sowed. [/quote]

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was not a mass shooting. I guess technically it was a school shooting because it occurred on a college campus. It was a political assassination like those that occurred in the 60s.[/quote]

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