Even online content that might seem relatively benign, such as a self-improvement video series for young men or blog posts skeptical of scientific findings, can be a gateway to darker ideas.
, from the day after 9/11 to Dec. 31, 2016, there were 85 fatal attacks in America by violent extremists. Two-thirds were carried out by far-right violent extremists and the remainder by radical Islamists.Kapetanovic told NBC News how he came to follow a variety of extremist beliefs — including some that denigrated his own Muslim heritage — but was later able to escape the cycle of digital hate and eventually confessed his thoughts to his father.
Christian Picciolini, a former white supremacist who now works to rehabilitate extremists, said extremist recruitment that previously happened in person now happens online. Kapetanovic said he felt isolated growing up, traveling lost distances to attend a magnet school and having few friends. His mother’s sudden death when he was 16 only made him feel more isolated and depressed, he said.
“There was a lot of just casual racism,” he recalled, and either verbal conversation or text posts pointed him to other online forums. “I come from a Muslim family. I come from an immigrant family. I come from a place where during the war, people like me that were ethnically Muslim were ethnically cleansed,” he said. For him, he said, he still can’t believe he was “OK with the kind of ideas that I was OK with. I mean, that's surreal.”“I thought that these arguments made sense to me, and that if they made sense, they should logically be able to hold up against whatever other people may think or throw at me,” he said.
brett_mcgurk How is occupying the middle east for israel not white supremacist?
Greed
Keep in mind how quickly they dismantled the Black Panthers ... smh
The new face of terrorist.
Just following supremacist don trump to hell.
These white supremacist's need to be labeled a hate group
This guy has the right idea now. He's studying the sciences that interest him. There's a future for him in that.
Look into the triggered left. One can barely make a comment on social media without them bullying and harassing someone they oppose. The left is extreme and usually using a potty mouth.
Then speak up and tell them, us, how to do it. How do we combat that ideology
wcsek That's because White Nationalists are Trump's brownshirts: ready to be dispatched on his behalf, at a moment's notice. The amount of rope we allow this madman will end up strangling us
Freedom of speech it cannot be stopped neither should it.......
But you can also blame the media for ignoring many others and only targeting 1 group. It is the story of the times now & when this takes it's course, this will be ignored, again. The media is nothing but those who stir the pot of fear, hate, and racism
5 killed and 42 more shot over the weekend in chicago. You think you can cover this?
Universal income can help reduce crime when government threaten to lose it if someone commit a crime
I am not defending white supremacist But they are also ignoring Gangs Other racial supremacist Mexican mob All other people out there shooting up people
Blame google and what they re hiding to allow snuff makers to use their tools
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