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lunasun

(21,646 posts)
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 12:23 AM Dec 2017

N.M. School-shooter-spent-time-online-becoming-radicalized by white supremacy groups


The 21-year-old who killed 17-year-olds Casey Jordan Marquez and Francisco Fernandez when he opened fire at Aztec High School in New Mexico has been identified as William Atchison.

CNN reports that Atchison had been previously investigated by the FBI in March 2016 after troubling comments he made online

In November, Atchison wrote on Steam, “How am I supposed to function in this world? Wherever I go, I see degeneracy. Pointless materialism, hedonism, sexual decay, dirty n**gers who do nothing but slowly break down this society etc. it’s fucking everywhere. No way to escape it, 99% of people are part of it and whatever I do I am confronted with the death of the West. Go to the store and buy groceries in peace? Nope, here’s a group of LGBT liberal filth in line with you. And there’s a n**ger family with 10 kids over there. And a Finn too, but he’s overweight as fuck and he’s buying alcohol and shit junk food. Fucking fantastic.
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On YouTube, Atchison admitted he posted anonymously on pro-Trump, white-supremacist sites like 4chan’s /pol/ board or The Daily Stormer, but gave up when domain registrars kept shutting down The Daily Stormer’s domain names. He, along with most of The Daily Stormer’s community, said the sites were “shoa’d,” an anti-Semitic slur.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/18/1725522/-School-shooter-spent-time-online-becoming-radicalized-by-Trump-and-white-supremacists
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N.M. School-shooter-spent-time-online-becoming-radicalized by white supremacy groups (Original Post) lunasun Dec 2017 OP
If only Trump had made America great again gratuitous Dec 2017 #1
A Finn too? matt819 Dec 2017 #2
You mean he became a lone wolf acting alone, right? Orrex Dec 2017 #3
RABID WOLVES IN OUR NATIONAL PARK KEEP MAULING HIKERS Nevernose Dec 2017 #7
But but but malaise Dec 2017 #4
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. n/t Orsino Dec 2017 #5
Will those white supremacists ever realize how big of losers they really are? FSogol Dec 2017 #6
Nope, and they probably never will either. Initech Dec 2017 #9
More Trump inspired terrorism. Great. Initech Dec 2017 #8
That's why the media+GOP have been acting like New Mexico never happened... Blue_Tires Dec 2017 #10

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
1. If only Trump had made America great again
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 12:59 AM
Dec 2017

William Atchison might not have had to shoot those two kids before killing himself.

Orrex

(63,215 posts)
3. You mean he became a lone wolf acting alone, right?
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 08:27 AM
Dec 2017

Last edited Tue Dec 19, 2017, 10:01 AM - Edit history (1)

White terrorists are always self-radicalized, with a history of mental illness, and they act alone.

Certainly they're not answering a call to violence by the idiot racist fuckhead currently occupying the White House. No way.

Nevernose

(13,081 posts)
7. RABID WOLVES IN OUR NATIONAL PARK KEEP MAULING HIKERS
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 09:43 AM
Dec 2017

YES, THE RABID WOLVES IN OUR NATIONAL PARK KEEP MAULING HIKERS, BUT THE WOLVES ARE ALL ACTING INDIVIDUALLY SO WE’RE NOT REALLY SEEING A PATTERN HERE
BOB VULFOV

First off, our thoughts and prayers go out to the latest hiker who was mauled by a lone wolf in our national park. The rabid wolf in question acted completely on its own. This foaming-at-the-mouth wolf was part of a one-wolf cell of resistance. We have no reason to believe the attack perpetrated by this specific bloodthirsty wolf can in any way be linked to the hundreds of other wolf-related and rabies-related incidents reported in our national park over the past few years.

To be clear, we do not currently have a problem with a growing population of killer, deranged wolves slowly taking over our park and eating everything in sight. It may look like we do based on the facts and the evidence, but that is a straw man argument. There’s no pattern here from which we can learn and prevent further maulings, so stop looking for one among the countless rabid wolves terrorizing our park.

We really shouldn’t even be discussing this particular mauling right now. It just happened, so by immediately trying to connect the dots and call attention to our park’s rapidly ballooning population of delirious murder-wolves, you are politicizing a tragedy. And, since these lone wolf incidents seem to be happening on a biweekly basis, you shouldn’t ever talk about them. Look, we’re all frustrated that the wolves in our park continue to act individually in such horrible ways. But, we also can’t talk about it or do anything of substance to prevent it in the future because that sort of thing is liberal politicization.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/yes-the-rabid-wolves-in-our-national-park-keep-mauling-hikers-but-the-wolves-are-all-acting-individually-so-were-not-really-seeing-a-pattern-here

Initech

(100,080 posts)
9. Nope, and they probably never will either.
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 10:10 AM
Dec 2017

That's what makes them losers - they are too engrossed in their own self sense of superiority that they really can't see how inferior they are,

Christopher Titus had a great point on his podcast recently that the people who are the most racist are the people with the worst jobs. The bus boys, the janitors, gas station attendants, the guys who clean shit up. You don't see too many Harvard educated attorneys who are hardcore racists. So true.

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