• nohaybanda [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Columbine was a shock, but even today most people don't know the little twerps were Nazis. They went wask off and libs politely pretended to not have noticed. Civility and all that.

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Their neo-nazi beliefs were all over their manifestos and whatnot but the media kept hammering it home that is was a case of simple bullying and not anything deeper. Honestly all Columbine copy cat murders can be viewed as like an act of fascist terrorism. Reactionaries wield violence this way and this shit hardly has apolitical goals.

          • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Yeah they claimed the violent media they consumed made them lash out against the school. We lacked the language back then like we do today to describe the shooters. They were black pilled fascists, straight up. Them playing doom had nothing to do with it. I'm sure they were bullied but it wasn't the crux of their motivation from what I've seen.

            • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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              3 years ago

              IIRC one of them was actually pretty popular beforehand- bullying wouldn't have been the whole story regardless, but it seems he wasn't actually bullied anyway

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            I recall that vividly, even in UK news Manson was brought up.

          • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            Marilyn Manson

            Which is fucking great because one of the twips was literally wearing a KMFDM t-shirt during the shooting

            Hell, they even came out with a song making fun of the shooters

            Really shows you how much research actually went into all the reporting

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        3 years ago

        Oh totally. If there's one thing the 80s and 90s were known for, it was the absolute void of moral panics, social anxieties, and media terror campaigns propagated through the country.

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah after Columbine is when my school gained a higher police presence. The cops and the school resource officer like involved in everything. We never got metal detectors but we did have a system where the school's main entrance could be locked off but there was still multiple side entrances into the school though. You couldn't make jokes about anything school shooting related. The "weird" kids were always watched. I could go on but it was like a paradigm shift.