Steve QJ
1 min readJan 3, 2023

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What's your point here? That online radicalisation is only a problem if it accounts for every murder in a given calendar year? Can you think of any type of crime that has a single cause?

Yes, racist propaganda predates the internet. But the ability to communicate said racist ideas to millions of people with zero credentials or effort, does not. The ability to share said racist ideas with millions more in anonymity does not. The ability for like-minded racists to gather by the thousands to absorb and amplify said racist ideas, does not.

So while I'm delighted that Gendron is no longer a threat to the public, his victims and their families might be a little more focused on the damage he's already caused, no? Not to mention the fact that Gendron 2.0 is likely reading those racist ideas right now.

And, to bring us back to the point of the article, the "antiracists" calling everything "white supremacy" and saying he's racist because he has white skin and perpetuating the lie that black people and white people are fundamentally different can only be pushing him further into that bubble. This is one aspect of the damage the culture war causes.

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Steve QJ
Steve QJ

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