White men are being radicalized much like Muslims were being radicalized by ISIS over the internet and they are becoming much more of a threat to national security than radicalized Muslims. Think El Paso and Dayton. These people are single males that are recruited online and are typically around 25 years old from a blue-collar or white-collar tech geek background, many are gamers, few with girlfriends, and are nerdy boys that sympathize with right-wing terrorism. For instance, the head of the Patriotic Front is a single twenty something racist nerd who lives with his daddy. My question is what do think drives these young men to such antisocial extremes?
Good post ?? Violent video games and movies is a driving force along with drugs and being marginalized by the media
They don't feel any purpose in that society, so they create themselves one, not very positive however.
"White boys"? So they are all juveniles? Just avoid areas with lots of leftists and dont wear a MAGA hat, it triggers them.
I remembered that african proverb : The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. We could mention also that fatherless boys have more addiction/depression/suicide. The hitler youth was full of boys which didn't had any dads, either because they died during WW1, or simply because they came back with such psychological trauma, they weren't really able to be a dad. I don't think there is any real solution to the problem, it will just grow stronger with time.
South Korea consumes more violent video games, makes some of the best violent movies (Old Boy, I saw the Devil,...) and racist groups? Not a problem. Drugs? I don't see how that contributes, everybody does them. Media marginalization? If reporting on the Me Too movement or Black Lives Matters makes you feel marginalized than you already have a problem. You've not heard of the Proud Boys? Look into it. It may be a good fit for you. I love that proverb. I think you are partially right. Humans are social animals that form tribes. Most people if they are not connected to any social group will become depressed. They will search for an accepting social group. Why some choose a hate filled internet group could be because they are disappointed at life and need to blame someone other than themselves and answers are provided by these groups?
Extremist Jews are known to attack Palestinians violently. This mob mentality exists in any ethnic groups which are in the majority in a specific territory.
Talking about people with personal issues. An avatar making a racist sign while saying I'm not a racist?
For having cured from heavy depression, I get a good idea how it's inside and how it breed extremism. When you're depressive, your life seems to feel unbearable. When you experiment such pain, it cause hatred, either hatred against yourself, or the surrounding world. Being assaulted by black people could for instance be a good trigger for such hatred to get a "target", especially if those young men don't have any black friends, and considering crime statistics, it must not be a that rare occurence. BTW, it's true for the anti white left, 1 million gender theorists, extreme vegan.
I don't think the neo-Nazis on here have had a personally negative experience at the hands of a Jew. They just need some group to blame for their dissatisfaction with life. The far left does not try to kill as many innocent members of a particular ethnicity as they can. Not the same.
The far left has a large history of slaughters, and the fact they didn't did because of ethnicity but for ideological purity doesn't make it better. Most nazis didn't had any fathers, as they were either killed during WW1, or broken from a psychological point of view. Furthermore, life in germany was particulary hard. From crisis is born anxiety, angriness, sadness, that lead to extremism. Young men need often purpose in their lives, and daesh, nazis, communists and many other give them that, a poor purpose but still a purpose.
As a Jew I do not relate to White Nationalism in any way. Unfortunately many Leftists have substituted old hate and stereotypes by new ones. In Modern Western Civilization any hate speech against men as a class is acceptable and fit for Respectable Publications such as NYT. Given that, the latest generation of young men lacks moral guidance.
We are not discussing authoritarian regimes, be they left or right, who like to slaughter their citizens are we? These are civilians who become radicalized through the internet and do not seem to realize their antisocial extremism and how unhealthy it has become. Being a member of an "in" group like Vanguard America or Stormfront for example may quell an individuals need to be a member of a social group but the trade off is alienating people around him and a sick growing hate that in the unstable leads to violence.
"many are gamers, few with girlfriends, and are nerdy boys" Most of those are free chit socialists, are you kidding me?
Most of the gamer nerdy guys that are single are actually an amalgam. So therefore few of them are socialists, socialism is not popular. Video games are.
We are speaking of people being radicalized and enrolled in "hate" movement, and the rise of authoritarian regimes is a good instance of that. I already offered you reasons : _ Depression _ Lack of purpose _ Lack of familial structure That's why there is no solution. I doubt that filling them with tablets would be solution, about the lack of purpose, remember that "the future is female" and those damn "cis hetero white men" are too numerous. I don't think modern societies has any purpose to offer them and any solution to their despair, pain. So, yes, it just need a guy with a suave, deep voice that accept to play the daddys for them, and to direct their pain, their hatred toward a specific target for them to feel better.
He was more of a "schizophrenic" than a "leftist", but yes, bad example. I got it wrong. I was thinking of the the Pittsburgh shooter. We may agree on the reasons but the solution is not hopeless.
Claiming something is racist doesnt make it so. Symbols used in common vernacular across racial groups suddenly get labelled racist and we're sposed to follow along? No one has an authority over language. Just some people think they can manufacture one.