AUDub 11,153 Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 Same story, different day, but it’s a good take. 8chan and the *chans in general are a cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubiefifty 16,807 Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 might i ask what 8chan is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUDub 11,153 Posted April 28, 2019 Author Share Posted April 28, 2019 1 hour ago, aubiefifty said: might i ask what 8chan is? It’s a board that grew out of 4chan, a popular image board where users post anonymously, and a gathering place for neo-nazis and white supremacists under the guise of being ironically racist/sexist bigots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanTiger 20,499 Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 25 minutes ago, AUDub said: It’s a board that grew out of 4chan, a popular image board where users post anonymously, and a gathering place for neo-nazis and white supremacists under the guise of being ironically racist/sexist bigots. Ironically? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShocksMyBrain 9,367 Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 1 hour ago, AUDub said: It’s a board that grew out of 4chan, a popular image board where users post anonymously, and a gathering place for neo-nazis and white supremacists under the guise of being ironically racist/sexist bigots. Let’s not leave pedophiles out of the common users too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUDub 11,153 Posted April 28, 2019 Author Share Posted April 28, 2019 2 hours ago, TitanTiger said: Ironically? Yes. It's a means of gaslighting that isn't nearly effective as it once was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUDub 11,153 Posted April 28, 2019 Author Share Posted April 28, 2019 1 hour ago, ShocksMyBrain said: Let’s not leave pedophiles out of the common users too. No doubt. 8chan blew up because of moot's "free speech" purge at 4chan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,388 Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Good article on the subject: America Under Attack by White Supremacists Acting Like ISIS A widespread digital network is calling for people to carry out more terrorist attacks after Poway and Christchurch. ........The online-inspired terror, and its instant repackaging as propaganda, was pioneered by ISIS and al Qaeda. And unlike Islamic extremism, white supremacist terror appears to hold a place of middling concern in the Trump administration. “It’s interesting: we fretted so much about al Qaeda and ISIS online, and we’ve got a massive white supremacist network online right now,” said Clint Watts, a Clint Watts, a former FBI agent on the Joint Terrorism Task Force........ ...........The white supremacist movement’s online footprint is a sign of its terror potential. Whereas ISIS supporters might succeed in uploading a limited number of ISIS videos to social media, footage of the Christchurch shooting went viral immediately after the attack. In the 24 hours after the mass shooting, Facebook recorded 1.5 million attempts to upload the video. ISIS might be a favorite Trump talking point, but the 1.5 million Christchurch video uploads suggest a much larger following for white supremacist terror. “You can tell that the global network of white supremacist terrorism is pretty damn strong right now, because they keep uploading, they keep talking about it, and the pace of attacks continues to speed up,” Watts said. “That’s a bad sign. If we were talking about inspired ISIS or al Qaeda attacks, all lights would be blinking bright red right now.” Read the complete article at: https://www.thedailybeast.com/poway-synagogue-shooting-america-under-attack-by-white-supremacists-acting-like-isis?ref=home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,388 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/05/01/alleged-synagogue-shooter-was-churchgoer-who-articulated-christian-theology-prompting-tough-questions-evangelical-pastors/?utm_term=.a3bc1f2851af The alleged synagogue shooter was a churchgoer who talked Christian theology, raising tough questions for evangelical pastors Before he allegedly walked into a synagogue in Poway, Calif., and opened fire, John Earnest appears to have written a seven-page letter spelling out his core beliefs: that Jewish people, guilty in his view of faults ranging from killing Jesus to controlling the media, deserved to die. That his intention to kill Jews would glorify God. Days later, the Rev. Mika Edmondson read those words and was stunned. “It certainly calls for a good amount of soul-searching,” said Edmondson, a pastor in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, a small evangelical denomination founded to counter liberalism in mainline Presbyterianism. Earnest, 19, was a member of an OPC congregation. His father was an elder. He attended regularly. And in the manifesto, the writer spewed not only invective against Jews and racial minorities but also cogent Christian theology he heard in the pews. So the pastor read those seven pages, trying to understand. “We can’t pretend as though we didn’t have some responsibility for him — he was radicalized into white nationalism from within the very midst of our church,” Edmondson said..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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