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.
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.
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
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.
IIRC the media was also blaming the shooting on Doom and Marilyn Manson.
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.
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
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I recall that vividly, even in UK news Manson was brought up.
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
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