New Zealand attacks

In response to: https://bit.ly/2O6905s "The Shooter’s Manifesto Was Designed to Troll"

How much of that matters at this point? Someone who believes the bullshit enough to murder dozens of people... obviously the hate is genuine. Setting aside the killing for a moment, and as an example, when someone makes homophobic jokes over and over but claims they're "just joking", it isn't too hard to imagine it's a serious problem disguised as a joke. And again... the killing part of it. Obviously muslims were killed for being muslims. The video and manifesto were perhaps meant to obfuscate the motive... but the way in which it was done points directly at poisonous, racist, right wing "troll culture". Like those photos cropping up of people throwing the "white power" hand signal as a supposed act of trolling. Yes, on some superficial level they might have been "joking" to illicit a reaction... but their actions are a window into their mindset. Non-racist people would have a problem even making the joke. The "joke" in-and-of-itself is a provocation and a racist act. But again... THE KILLING makes their motives and mindset crystal clear in this case. People are fucked up and have been radicalized in bizarre ways. An apparent motive, hidden behind a meta-motive that just points right back to the original, more obvious motive.