• Ideology [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Nah, late Gen X started it off with the whole Columbine thing. There were news specials and documentaries about that event for years (though we would now consider it relatively unremarkable), and lots of schools started talking about bullying and increasing security.

      Then when Millenials came of age, similar bullied ideologues took notes from Columbine and started to copycat. But their ideologies were usually pretty isolated, self centered, and divorced from reality compared to the way it is now with pre-packaged conservative talking points. As the number of copycats increased, people started tying the ideology of those guys into the increasingly relevant antifeminism and eventually alt-right movements. Millenials really perfected the craft and turned it into a diy adventurism spectacle and made the incel shooter into a hero of 'socially disadvantaged' white guys. It's like their version of theory.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The funny thing is that the columbine shooters weren't bullied. They were neo-nazis. They attacked the school on Hitler's birthday. I found out about it just a few years ago because the media never talked about it. Instead the media attributed it to bullying and the "trenchcoat mafia" that wasn't even affiliated with the shooters.