https://mobile.twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1549423541052788737

Rogan: maybe someone should shoot the homeless people

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/canada-police-report-multiple-shootings-british-columbia-87366849/

2 dead after all-night shooting rampage in Vancouver, Canada Canadian authorities say a gunman who roamed for hours through a sleeping Vancouver suburb shot four people, two of them fatally, as he opened fire at a casino, a center for the homeless and other locations before being killed by police

  • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Not trying to defend what Rogan said because like...it definitely could instigate stochastic terrorism....but is there any evidence of a connection or that the shooter ever even listened to Rogan's podcast?

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      the point of stochastic terrorism is exactly that you aren't that one specific guy who single-handedly instigated that one specific act of terror, but that you're just part of the steady background droning that makes fascist violence appear morally permissible, socially acceptable and historically justified while you can always deny you were complicit in creating and maintaining that murderous hegemony. Rogan is a part of it just as every braindead redditor who's posted similar shit, it's just that this walking, talking avatar of meat sweats is further up the chain, has bigger reach, gives the redditors something to parrot. this is how a society is step by step prepared for the operation of the ovens. this is how the increasingly desperate capital of the imperial core overwrites the liberal ideology with something more mask off and more hands on.

      • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
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        2 years ago

        ...sure?
        but saying "rogan caused x" really does make it seem like it's more a case like the quebec mosque shooter or something where you can directly tie the guy to Ben Shapiro.