Ep. 315 - Why The Shooter Did It
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A killer goes on a shooting spree at a New Zealand mosque. Why did he do it? We will analyze his manifesto as well as underreported religious violence around the globe. Then, Nancy Pelosi wants kids to vote. And I defend Chelsea Clinton.
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A killer goes on a shooting spree at a New Zealand mosque.
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We will analyze his manifesto as well as underreported religious violence around the globe.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Obviously, the big story is this slaughter that happened in New Zealand.
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Basically, the entire media apparatus is getting this wrong.
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They are doing exactly what the guy said they were going to do, what he predicted, what he wanted them to do.
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So, we're going to go in-depth on why he did this, what the shooting means, what the shooting means in context of larger religious violence around the world.
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We know that a 28-year-old personal trainer, former bodybuilder, went into a mosque live streaming with a bunch of guns
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and killed 49 Muslims at a mosque, at their house of worship.
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He, just before he went in, he released a manifesto online.
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Unless you are steeped in internet language, unless you're steeped in various ideologies on both the left and the right,
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unless you have some context with which to read this manifesto, you can get it very wrong,
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as a ton of people on social media and in traditional media, the mainstream media, did on Friday and Saturday.
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They just were not equipped to read this document, so they didn't know exactly what it meant.
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And the question is, should people read the manifesto?
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You know, this document was hosted on a few websites, Scribd, a few others, and some media were posting it.
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And some media outlets said, we don't want to publish the manifesto.
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Daily Wire, I think, said, we're not going to publish the manifesto.
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We're not going to give this guy extra publicity.
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However, the document cloud services like Scribd that people had uploaded it to also took down the manifesto.
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This, I think, is a huge mistake because to say a place like Daily Wire or CNN or Fox or whatever,
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that they're not going to publish it, right, there's no reason to totally give this guy an open platform.
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But to say that the internet is going to censor this document, you can't find it.
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I had to search and have people send me copies of it just to be able to read it.
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This is a bad idea because the message that it sends is that this document is explosive.
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Maybe it contains all sorts of truths that the conspiracy doesn't want you to read, which is not what is going on here.
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What is actually happening is these document cloud services are getting a lot of public pressure.
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They don't want to be seen as agreeing with this guy's content.
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They're being kowtowed by censorious mobs that actually, if anything, are giving the shooter more credit than he deserves.
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The reality is the ideas that he's espousing are bad ideas.
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He's asking questions, he's coming up with bad answers to those questions, and then he's using those bad answers to justify killing a ton of innocent people.
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The way to stop those bad ideas is to refute them.
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Not to ignore them, not to dismiss them, not to say that they're so dangerous we're not going to put...
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There's nothing mystical or secret or really wise in these documents.
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If you ignore it, you give it a dangerous cachet, and people are going to seek it out, and they're going to read it out of context, and they might draw pretty bad conclusions.
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So the ideas that he espouses are only powerful if they are not shown to be as wrong as they are.
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I'm not going to go through and read the whole manifesto or anything like that.
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If you can still find it online, I guess you're welcome to.
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I'm just going to go for the most important parts that I think show the questions he's asking, how he goes so wrong, and how he perverts these things to try to justify killing a lot of innocent people.
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And the introduction says, it's the birth rates, it's the birth rates, it's the birth rates.
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Ethnic replacement, cultural replacement, racial replacement, white genocide.
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So what you know from the first page of this is that this is boilerplate white supremacist ideology.
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This is not this one guy's, you know, really profound insight into a certain ideology.
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And he traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, Muslim countries, European countries.
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Obviously then he's in Australia and he went over to New Zealand.
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The birth rates, the birth rates, the birth rates.
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This is pretty interesting timing in so much as you've got governments across the West trying to address this problem.
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We were just talking on Thursday about how the new proposals being pushed by Democrats and Republicans,
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by the whole government, are to deal with the problem of birth rates.
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Right now the United States has a less than replacement birth rate.
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The white people have low birth rates and this is the problem because the white people are going to disappear.
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Actually, the issue of birth rates is not just white people in the United States.
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You're seeing huge declines of birth rates among all native-born Americans.
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Most especially, actually, not among whites, but among Hispanics.
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But same thing with black Americans, all sorts of Americans.
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So it's another one of these examples where a little learning is a dangerous thing.
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When you ignore other truths, you can create this ideology and go down a real wormhole
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that ultimately he's going to use to justify violence.
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The birth rate issue is a broader issue across the entire country, across demographic groups,
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To most of all show the invaders that our lands will never be their lands.
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To add momentum to the pendulum swings of history, further destabilizing and polarizing Western society.
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And finally, to create conflict between the two ideologies within the U.S. on the ownership of firearms
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in order to further divide the social, cultural, political, and racial divide within the U.S.
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This conflict over the Second Amendment and the attempted removal of firearms rights
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will ultimately result in a civil war that will eventually balkanize the U.S.
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along political, cultural, and most importantly, racial lines.
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So I said boilerplate white supremacist ideology.
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This is what they've been talking about for 70 years.
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They're just pushing for the upcoming race war.
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What this guy wants is not to achieve some limited terrorist objective.
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What he wants to do is destabilize the United States.
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So the first thing he obviously gets wrong here is he refers to these Muslims in New Zealand as invaders.
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Regardless of what you think about the issue of immigration, of immigration across, you know, various continents,
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across oceans, into the United States, wherever, they're not invaders.
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The Muslims who immigrated to New Zealand didn't illegally cross the border to New Zealand.
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So just that language, invader, is disingenuous.
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This guy's real problem, I guess, would be with politicians who advocate for lax immigration policies or open borders or whatever.
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But to call these people who were innocent, who were peaceful, praying in a mosque, invaders, is simply a lie.
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Then to add momentum to the pendulum swings of history, further destabilizing and polarizing Western society.
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What he wants is not to make Western society better.
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It's to make Western society worse and worse and worse until it's so bad that there's an all-out war and he can create a new society.
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I mean, it says toward a new society on the title of the manifesto.
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So the premise here is that the society is already so awful that the best thing to do is make life so much worse for everybody that it'll all turn to rubble.
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And then the ethno-white supremacist utopian society can finally take off.
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And this is important to understand because his tactics will make a lot more sense to observers, to commentators, once you realize that his purpose is to make everything worse.
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He wants to further conflict between the two ideologies within the U.S.
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He wants U.S. politicians to fight over this, specifically over firearms.
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He sees the Second Amendment as this perfect wedge issue because it's in the Constitution.
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You can't get rid of this right without basically launching another American revolution.
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And what he wants to do is use firearms to get the left so riled up over firearms that they try to undo and overturn the Constitution,
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which will get the right so riled up that you will see a civil war in the United States.
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He could have used other weapons, as he talks about later on.
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Partially what gave me some context for reading this manifesto is I did a video for Prager University on the alt-right.
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Back when that word meant something, now the left uses alt-right to describe anybody to the right of Hillary Clinton.
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But Hillary Clinton did actually the same thing.
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But the term alt-right in a really narrow sense is an alternative to conservative thought.
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So this encompasses a wide variety of ideologies, but all of them basically boil down to white identitarianism or white supremacism or white nationalism or whatever you want to call it.
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This is difficult to discuss because the left abuses these terms so much that they water it down so it means nothing.
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But there actually is an ideology here that we're talking about.
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It is a fundamentally racial ideology that is motivating this guy.
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And so the 14 words are, we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.
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When he uses that phrase, he's not coming up with some new ideology.
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He's saying, I am part of this very specific ideological realm that flourishes on the internet.
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And that is how you can understand what I'm doing.
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But this guy is not insane in the way that other mass shooters are insane.
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When you look at shooters like, who was the one in Newtown?
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The guy looked like a lunatic or Aurora, Colorado.
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Can't string three words together because he's got a severe psychological problem.
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That's a very important difference because you can't engage rationally.
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If the guy in Aurora, Colorado wrote a manifesto, you know, in crayon backwards and it didn't
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But if somebody under the spell of a wicked ideology writes a manifesto, you do have to
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read it so that you can understand and see how things can go wrong and try to prevent other
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people from going wrong and have answers to bad ideas.
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He does have some similarities to the other shooters in that it appears he has daddy issues.
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We've talked about this with a lot of these mass shooters.
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This is one common thread amongst so many of these shooters, the vast majority of these
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His father apparently divorced his mother when he was very young.
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They, I guess he still saw his father maybe, or his father was still alive.
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And all of the neighbors said, oh, he was such a nice boy.
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That seems to be the moment when this guy cracked, when this guy went on traveling excursions
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throughout the Middle East, when he started to hatch his plans, when he started to become
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steeped in this white supremacist ideology, and ultimately then when he launched this attack.
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That is the one psychological factor that people should talk about, and it's gone basically
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So then he does an interview with himself, because he knows that the media are going to
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But he is making his motivations clear, because he is an ideologue.
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Insane as those ideas might, or perverted as those ideas might become.
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So he says, quote, was there a particular event or reason you decided to commit a violent attack?
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He saw that Europe had a lot of terrorist attacks, and Europe had a lot of Muslim immigrants.
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And so he decided that he was going to take revenge by killing a lot of innocent people.
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Is this guy reacting to events and then having those events prompt his actions?
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Or is this a guy who just wanted to go kill a lot of people and used events and used observations
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I just saw all these Muslim immigrants, so I'm reacting for my country or something.
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I think it's very clear from the rest of the manifesto that this guy wanted to go out there
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And he's backtracking and justifying it in his head.
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He then asks, did you carry out the attack for fame?
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You know, a lot of these guys want to be famous.
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He insists, quote, no, carrying out an attack for fame would be laughable.
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After all, who can remember the name of the attackers on 9-11?
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How about the attack on the Pentagon, the attackers in the plane that crashed in the field?
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I'll be forgotten quickly, which I do not mind.
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On the one hand, this guy obviously has a grandiose vision of himself.
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So on the one hand, he seems to have this inflated ego and want this inflated ego.
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On the other hand, again, a difference between lunatics, true mentally ill people and people
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This guy's ideology, while not coherent in a broad sense, has some trappings of internal
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I don't think he's using the ideology as some facade.
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I don't think he's fooling us with the ideology.
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And so in that sense, maybe he doesn't really care about fame.
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In that sense, maybe his motivations are different than other killers' motivations.
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So he says, why did you choose to use firearms?
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He says, I could have chosen any weapons or means, gas, fire, vehicular attacks, plane
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I chose firearms for the effect it would have on social discourse, the extra media coverage
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they would provide, and the effect it would have on social discourse.
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The politics of the United States, the political situation of the world.
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The U.S. is torn into many factions with enough pressure.
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The left wing within the U.S. will seek to abolish the Second Amendment.
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Politicians in the United States focus on the guns.
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The media in the United States focus on the guns.
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I mean, he's right when he says he could have used other weapons.
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Not even to make his bizarre vision of society happen gradually.
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But to actually plunge society into some chaos.
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And then in the rubble, he thinks in his fascistic vision,
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he's going to be able to remake the world as he wants to.
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So forgetting the guns, he's kind of setting up the guns is the big debate.
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But the question is, is this guy primarily motivated by religion?
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Is that, because it's obviously an attack on a house of worship.
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So is he, well, he asks himself, he says, do you personally hate Muslims?
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He says, a Muslim man or woman living in their homelands?
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A Muslim man or woman choosing to invade our lands, live on our soil, and replace our people?
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Because what it shows us is that this attack is not primarily about religious bigotry.
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This attack primarily is motivated by racial bigotry.
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So you're hearing people say that this is a prime example of Islamophobia.
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But it's pretty clear from his ideology, from this line, from the whole rest, the whole context, the whole title of the manifesto, the replacement, that this is actually not really about religion.
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He says he's fine with Muslims having their own lands.
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Now, what does it mean for a Muslim to have his own land?
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Before Islam existed, those lands belonged to other people of other religions.
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Some people, you know, genuinely have great disputes with Islam.
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For them, the religious battle is the first and most important battle.
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It's about the race of people living in New Zealand.
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If you're a Christian, you know, and you say yes.
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So, now we have both sides of it to say this is not primarily a religious terrorist attack.
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Now, the right wing in the U.S. in discourse is calling this a leftist attack because this guy has a lot of leftist ideas.
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The left is calling this a right wing attack because this guy has a lot of very far right ideas.
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Again, if you want a little more insight on this, go to my video that I did for PragerU on the alternative right.
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The alt, I think some people hear that word as alt-right, like ultimate or final or most-right.
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It's an alternative to what would be called the conservative tradition from, say, Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk and those kind of people.
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He says very explicitly, I'm not a conservative.
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I want no part of conservatism or the conservative tradition.
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For once, the person that will be called a fascist is an actual fascist.
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He's very specifically an eco-fascist, an environmentalist fascist.
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Now, I know a lot of right wingers want to say, fascism is purely a leftist ideology.
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It's the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
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Fascism does have a lot of elements that are very left wing, specifically economically.
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However, fascism does have a kind of idolatry of the tradition.
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It takes a lot of elements that are right wing and really perverts them.
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But it does draw on elements that are right wing as well.
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Worker ownership of the means of production depends on who the workers are.
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If it's my race of workers working for someone who's not of our race,
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then I want the workers to take over like communists.
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So, yes, that's a very left wing point of view.
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When I was young, I was a communist, then an anarchist,
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and finally a libertarian before becoming an eco-fascist.
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He's a collectivist, nationalist, racialist, authoritarian who says that the environment is utterly important to fascism.
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And this is where you get to where he goes so wrong religiously because it is almost a worship of the creation.
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He is saying because I so idolize the nation and the race itself that even the trees next to where the race was born,
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even the landscape of the nation, that is so much more important than other aspects of society.
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Prophets or immigration or cosmopolitanism or culture or what are you saying?
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The race, the soil, the trees, the dirt, the hills.
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Then an anarchist is that, I think that's left wing.
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Some people say that's right wing, but I think it's left wing.
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The left libertarians and the right libertarians.
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The truth about his political views is they don't fit neatly on the right or the left.
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Anybody who tells you he's a left winger is oversimplifying.
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Anybody who tells you he's a right winger is oversimplifying.
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This is something so out of the mainstream that cynical politicians and cynical media people are going to want to use this and say,
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He talks about the tradition, our people are, we have to draw back on our, you know, make our tradition great again and saying there's no traditionalism without the environmentalism.
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This is a connection that we don't talk about very much, but because now the left basically owns environmentalism.
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And the idea of the right is that the right just likes profits at all costs and economic progress and we don't really care about the natural environment.
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That's a kind of new development in the history of political philosophy.
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That, that breakdown of the left and right doesn't hold up for long periods of, of history.
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And so, uh, basically whoever is trying to tell you, sell you a simple view of this guy's politics, reject it.
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So he knows the media are going to start pointing fingers.
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And so beyond just the left and the right, who can we blame?
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He asks himself, where are you a supporter of Donald Trump?
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Immediately, the left wanted to blame Trump for this.
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He says, quote, as a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose.
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So what we have here is he says, do you support Donald Trump?
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He says, in theory, if Donald Trump were what I wanted Donald Trump to be, then yes, I would support Donald Trump.
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So he says explicitly, I, I don't support Donald Trump.
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Cynical people who oppose Donald Trump are going to try to exploit this and say, see, he views Trump as a symbol of white identity and white common purpose.
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But then he says, one sentence later, in reality, I don't support Donald Trump.
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And actually, it's worth pointing out, when he says, dear God, no, God is with a lowercase g.
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This will tell you another something about his view, his right wing views or his traditional views or his conservative views.
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He's not showing a whole lot of respect for God or religion because his religion is not Christianity.
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His religion is not the traditional religion of his so-called people.
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He then asks, were you taught violence and extremism by video games, music, literature, and cinema?
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His response, yes, Spyro the Dragon 3 taught me ethno-nationalism.
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Fortnite trained me to be a killer and to floss on the corpses of my enemies.
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Even while he's making direct points, he is making jokes.
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So obviously, no, Spyro the Dragon didn't teach him about ethno-nationalism, right?
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He learned that by reading blogs on the internet, presumably.
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What that line also tells us is this is a guy steeped in internet, steeped in internet culture.
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First of all, I don't know any of these video games.
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You're watching me on the internet or listening to me on the internet right now.
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So this is a guy who's, he's traveled around the world, but he lived on the internet.
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You get an image of a guy who's isolated, who's talking to presumably the most sinister people on earth,
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who is blurring the line between reality and humor and earnestness.
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This brings us to the, to the most controverted part of the manifesto.
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So in the manifesto, he, he asks himself, is there a particular person that radicalized you the most?
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Now this, especially read in context with the video game answer, is obviously irony.
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What he's actually saying is, he's laughing at the question.
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He's saying, no, there's not a particular person who influenced and radicalized him the most.
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He does actually refer to certain fascist thinkers in other parts and certain schools of fascist thought over time.
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So, and that might be a more earnest answer to the question, but he's laughing at the question.
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He's saying she doesn't have insights and her views are not terribly insightful.
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And, and, and then he says, I mean, this is the, this is how you know for sure that he's making a joke,
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This is a guy who just killed nearly 50 people in a mosque.
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Candace Owens talks on the internet, obviously she's not too extreme for him.
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It's also ironic that a white supremacist would say that this black girl is the, is the great insight, insightful person.
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She is now one of the biggest spokesmen for conservative thought.
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She is one of the favored spokesmen from Donald Trump.
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I mean, this, they, they said Candace Owens was the inspiration for this attack.
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And, uh, the, the other place you see this internet humor, he, he responds to a point where the point was,
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And then he responds to that by saying, what the F did you effing say about me, you little B?
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I'll have you know I graduated the top of my class of the Navy SEALs.
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He's making fun of an internet thread discussion.
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He's making fun of internet anonymous Twitter culture.
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He's making fun of the place that he lives, which is the internet.
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This is another thing that people are getting really, really wrong because the object of his
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ire in the manifesto is not really the people that he just slaughtered.
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He says, he's not blaming immigrants for not assimilating into Europe or America or Australia,
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He says, expecting immigrants to assimilate to a dying decadent culture is laughable.
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Now, if his ideas were actually coherent, were really coherent, then he would unleash his
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terrorist attack on his own people, his own culture.
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But because of the idolatry of the race, because he doesn't ultimately need all these ideas
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to make sense because he hates the racial other, then he, he just goes out and attacks
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But if his ideas had more coherence, then you can see where that insight would be in that
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People are blaming white people for this attack or, uh, Christians for this attack or what?
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He says, green nationalism is the only true nationalism.
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We were born from our lands and our culture was molded by these same lands.
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It's the lands, it's the, it's the folk in the lands.
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He says, there is no green future with never ending population growth.
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We talked a week or two ago about how this is one place you can always see where ideas
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go perverse when they start trying to limit the number of humans who are born.
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It happens with people trying to kill off old people in euthanasia.
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When you're just trying to kill off humans to lower the populations, it's the mark of
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The devil does not want more people and neither does this guy.
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He says, we can't have all of this population growth.
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In part, it's because of the idolatry of nature.
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He says, it'll hurt the environment if we have too many people born.
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The natural environment does not exist so that human beings can serve it.
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The natural environment exists so that we can steward it and enjoy it, but that the cart
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I'm confusing two metaphors, but the, the tail cannot wag the dog here.
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He says, the present is a gift from those in our past.
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So here you see, there's the nature worship and the ancestor worship.
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This is a gift from those in our past, the worship of the fathers.
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Here you see maybe questions of these daddy issues.
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I think it's wrong to spit on them and tear down their statues.
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What he is talking about, which is an essentially pagan idea is quite different from the Christian
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In James, it is written every good gift and every perfect gift is from above coming down
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from the father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
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Now what this guy says is every good gift comes from the past, comes from below, comes from
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the earth, comes from our human fathers, but that is utterly at odds with the Christian
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So he says, venerate the ancestors, but work for the children.
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That's where the, where the real perversion sets in.
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Then he says, we need a soldier's fight, expect a soldier's fight and have a soldier's
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He went in and he slaughtered innocent people who were unarmed, who were praying.
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It's just, I mean, obviously it's much worse than that, but that's what the analogy is.
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He didn't, he didn't have the thing that he's calling for.
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He didn't have the glory that he's calling for.
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He's, he's basically, they would call it LARPing.
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He's got a little story of himself in his head and he's playing it out, but there's nothing
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And then he says at the end, I will see you in Valhalla.
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In Norse mythology, Valhalla is the hall of the slain.
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And all this white supremacist stuff, when you go back far enough, it, it just ends up
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It's a, it's a worship of the creation, of the attributes of creation.
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Race, ethnicity, land, hills, mountains, fathers, grandfathers, tradition.
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Now, these things in their proper place, look, tradition is very important to, to all political
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Tradition, either you're rebelling against the tradition or you're trying to channel the
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But a, a, a, and a worship of the tradition is when things go totally wrong.
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Guns, Islamophobia, immigration, the news media, gun laws.
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Someone blamed Chelsea Clinton for the shooting.
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If he were motivated purely by ideology, this is how you know.
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It goes, so if, let's say that his ideology, for whatever internal consistency it has, if
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he were motivated purely by ideology and the replacement is the issue and the demographics
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are the issue and we're not having kids and we don't have a traditional culture, if he
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were motivated purely by ideology, he would have gotten married and had kids instead of
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becoming a 28-year-old loner loser who shot up a mosque.
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He would have done, but he wasn't motivated purely by ideology.
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He's clearly an angry young man who wanted to kill some people, who had an ideology that
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helped him along to do it that maybe he believed in very seriously.
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If he were motivated by the preservation of his own culture, he would have participated
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He would have participated in the religion that made his culture.
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It's ultimately, it has a rough sketch of coherence, but it's not ultimately a coherent
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You should try to understand it because there was some ideological motivation.
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And also the other part is not just to look at this totally in isolation.
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This is not the only terrible event that's happened in the world.
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This is not the only racial or religious motivated killing that's happened in the world.
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And this is where the media actually come into play.
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About a month and a half ago, January 27th, Islamic militants bombed a cathedral in the
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Philippines, killing 20 and leaving dozens wounded.
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Jihadists in Nigeria have killed 120 Christians in the last three weeks.
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In multiple attacks, 52 Christians killed last Monday, another 17 the day before that,
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week before that killed 30, right before that killed another 38.
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Just today, a Turkish terrorist murdered three and wounded nine people on a tram in the Dutch
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So you're going to see people cynically say it's this, this is the big problem.
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The only problem that matters is white supremacist ideology.
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It's not even close to the biggest religious persecution and religious killing in the world.
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It's nowhere near, I mean, not orders of magnitude away.
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So honest people, genuine people can look at that attack, go through it with a fine tooth
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comb, find everything that was wrong, what motivated it, look at it head on, say, hmm,
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And yet, probably those other killings, you might not have heard about them in the last
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Because of that double standard, because of that hypocrisy.
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And that is the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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That is, it's a line from Michael Gerson, a speech writer for Bush.
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The reason, I think, that the media only focus on the rare attack from a white supremacist
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They focus on that with so much more attention than on Islamic terrorist attacks, which happen
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And they do that because of the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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Because basically they think, oh, you know, Muslims just do this.
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They just have, they attack people like this all the time.
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That's just what, we can't expect more of them.
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But when white people do it, that's the big issue.
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That, because we should expect so much more of them.
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That is an essentially racist or Islamophobic or whatever word you want to use.
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And that is the position that dominates our public discourse.
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So I want it, you know, we have so much more to get to.
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We can't get to it today because we had to focus on this the whole time.
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But I want it to be really, really thorough because I think at least somewhere on the
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internet, somewhere in discourse over this, people should really analyze this for everything
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The perversity of the ideology, the wickedness of the attack, and the shallowness of the
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Because if you only go for those cynical, shallow, exploitative reactions, then you're
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doing what the guy wants you to do and predicted that you would do.
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We have got a lot more that we'll get to tomorrow, but we'll have to get to it tomorrow.
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