Some of them live vicariously through mass murderers such as Bissonnette, Dylann Roof and Elliot Rodger, Fiset said. “A succession of choices and life circumstances” lead to people becoming vulnerable to radicalization and violence, he said.įiset said there is a fringe of “young white men who are disillusioned, who don’t believe in the promises of neo-liberalism and multiculturalism, who feel rejected and who are gathering and creating cesspools of anger.” There is no single cause of extremist violence, Fiset said. “It’s the belief that if you undertake enough actions that are sufficiently violent, at a certain point tension will be so exacerbated that a so-called racial war will be inevitable.” It’s very similar to the approach of the Rahowa - Racial Holy War - that existed in the skinhead movement when I was in it. “The goal of this is to inspire other people to commit similar acts. The New Zealand attacker’s reference to Bissonnette and several other violent extremists would have been “a way for him to inspire copycats. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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