I don't think I agree? It makes a difference because action does not sprout out of thin air. It sprouts out of that bullshit first.
Look at all the manifesto murderers. Every single one of them was poisoned via the online shit you're saying doesn't matter. It matters because those people turn into the white power gang, they are a prerequisite that is being successfully met and eliminating that prerequisite is one step towards putting the genie back in the bottle.
Yeah online radicalization is 100% a real thing. It DOES have have an impact if you share "funny" racist memes online. Ironic racism is still racism and is used by white supremacists to infiltrate less political savy groups. Places like 4chan/reddit and twitter breed footsoldiers for fascism.
This is unironically why I try to be kind online. Yeah I can be grouchy sometimes. But it feels good to be nice instead of narcissistic even on a keyboard.
The thing is, while we call it "stochastic" terrorism, it's not really random on a causal level. Most internet fascists don't have the gumption to do shit like that and never will. Most of them aren't "at risk" of such behaviors except from a zoomed-out statistical perspective that doesn't really capture their specific circumstances. Most of the time these fuckers just do the same shit everyone else does in society, it's just a matter of how racist their anonymous rants about work are on Twitter. Beyond that, most of them are just temporarily maladjusted and will develope more self-regulation within the neoliberal framework as their shitty job beats them down and they conform to their work culture to avoid living as a human cockroach.
People who are too online like us find it very easy to make very alarming stories that put us at the heart of some grand struggle to stifle white supremacy, but it's not that different from the kabuki theater of electoralisn that libs occupy themselves with.
"Some believe that today the main battlefield is the internet. They are right, and the internet is at the forefront of the current ideological struggle." -
I don't think I agree? It makes a difference because action does not sprout out of thin air. It sprouts out of that bullshit first.
Look at all the manifesto murderers. Every single one of them was poisoned via the online shit you're saying doesn't matter. It matters because those people turn into the white power gang, they are a prerequisite that is being successfully met and eliminating that prerequisite is one step towards putting the genie back in the bottle.
Yeah online radicalization is 100% a real thing. It DOES have have an impact if you share "funny" racist memes online. Ironic racism is still racism and is used by white supremacists to infiltrate less political savy groups. Places like 4chan/reddit and twitter breed footsoldiers for fascism.
This is unironically why I try to be kind online. Yeah I can be grouchy sometimes. But it feels good to be nice instead of narcissistic even on a keyboard.
The thing is, while we call it "stochastic" terrorism, it's not really random on a causal level. Most internet fascists don't have the gumption to do shit like that and never will. Most of them aren't "at risk" of such behaviors except from a zoomed-out statistical perspective that doesn't really capture their specific circumstances. Most of the time these fuckers just do the same shit everyone else does in society, it's just a matter of how racist their anonymous rants about work are on Twitter. Beyond that, most of them are just temporarily maladjusted and will develope more self-regulation within the neoliberal framework as their shitty job beats them down and they conform to their work culture to avoid living as a human cockroach.
People who are too online like us find it very easy to make very alarming stories that put us at the heart of some grand struggle to stifle white supremacy, but it's not that different from the kabuki theater of electoralisn that libs occupy themselves with.
"Some believe that today the main battlefield is the internet. They are right, and the internet is at the forefront of the current ideological struggle." -