
CHOoseWisely123
Assisted Suicide Advocate; I shall be free
-
- Joined
- Aug 15, 2022
- Posts
- 2,922
Two recent school shootings are highlighting what extremism researchers see as a growing — and poorly understood — trend among young people who embrace mass violence.
some researchers say these attacks are examples of "nonideological" terrorism. They say these attacks appear to be the result of several antisocial, decentralized, online networks coming together in ways that encourage and inspire younger children to commit atrocities.
"It's really about that violence for the sake of violence,"
"There is a growth of intention and design within certain subcultures and subnetworks to inculcate that belief into younger people."
In December, Natalie "Samantha" Rupnow killed a student, a substitute-teacher coordinator and herself at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison.
"This is sort of the next chapter of what we could call 'far-right violence' looks like at this stage or what terrorism looks like,"
"It's almost like they're little fandoms, and there's hierarchies, and in each one there are these people that are trying to push their victims to do more and more extreme harm to themselves for clout," said Mack Lamoureux, a former reporter for Vice News, who spent a year investigating 764.
But at the heart of it, it truly seems to be misanthropy and nihilism."
"Most of these individuals are so deeply online, their identities are so deeply intertwined with internet culture or subculture, it's really hard to understand why they're radicalizing or how they're radicalizing, because what they're consuming is like five layers deep of inside jokes and memes," said Kriner. "So the way to detect radicalization is becoming more complex. We're having a harder time identifying individuals before they carry out acts of violence."