A man who admits he ran down a Muslim family said he did so because he believed anti-Muslim conspiracies he found on fringe websites like Alex Jones’ Infowars.
  • Skyrmir@lemmy.world
    41·
    1 year ago

    I’m really interested why Lemmy says there are -6 new messages? That many deleted comments or what?

    As for the story, it turns out water is wet. Not really a surprise.

    • PizzaMan@lemmy.worldOP
      81·
      1 year ago

      At the moment, lemmy is not great with comment integrity. If somebody deletes a comment (mod or the user themselves), the entire chain basically gets nuked.

      So it looks like a conservative got embarrassed that they were supporting a white supremacist killer, and deleted their comments. Or maybe they got banned.

      • gaifux@lemmy.world
        18·
        1 year ago

        I’m new here- so this place is kind of like Reddit except less tolerant of political dissent? Do you have to be Democrat for Lemmy? I don’t understand.

        • PizzaMan@lemmy.worldOP
          42·
          1 year ago

          No one seems to care when Christians or Jews are killed

          What suggests to you that this is the case?

          If it’s the manifesto release, i don’t see how that equates to attention on the subject. Various PDs are going to have different policies on the release of information.

          And if it’s the media coverage, there was a shit load of coverage of Audrey Hale, so I don’t see why you’re making a complaint over lack of attention.

                • PizzaMan@lemmy.worldOP
                  11·
                  1 year ago

                  Anything to avoid saying “Transgender Extremist Murders Christian Children”, which is what happened, end of story.

                  Wording it like that is itself agenda driven. You don’t want accuracy, you just want the headlines to fit a specific agenda, one that derides trans people and plays towards the christian persecution fetish.

                  There is a clear agenda from the media to demonize white straight men and elevate everybody else, regardless how heinous their actions

                  There is no such agenda. Most shooters are white men, so most coverage is of white men.

  • random65837@lemmy.world
    411·
    1 year ago

    Funny, I’ve been reading the good, the bad, and in insane from infowars for years, and I’ve for some unknown reason never felt the need to go kill people who weren’t white. Probably because this is just stupid and an an excuse from a childish adult that wanted people to feel bad for him because he got caught. Nice try.

    • PizzaMan@lemmy.worldOP
      91·
      1 year ago

      Just because you aren’t gullible enough to be easily radicalized doesn’t mean the same applies to others.

      • BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com
        3·
        1 year ago

        So much this.

        We can’t have a crappy education system and expect our population to be able to tell BS online from anything factual.

        Unfortunately enough people in the USA are gullible enough that this particular person probably isnt the only one.

        A well-educated population is harder to control or deceive.