20. Roof's friend said Roof wasn't a racist, just made racist jokes & had "strong conservative beliefs." Think about that.
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21. The racist jokes and the "strong conservative beliefs" are, let us say, the gateway drugs. Most can partake of them and go no further.
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22. But let's say "strong conservative beliefs" and racist jokes don't give enough kick. There's the harder stuff, the racist subculture
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23. Of course, most of the other people in racist subculture don't act out logic of their position. They're all talk, just posting on net
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24. But for a few troubled individuals in racist subculture, talk isn't good enough. They want fulfillment in apocalyptic violence
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25. The violence isn't just an acting out of personal disorder, it's a chance to gain agency, to enter into the making of history.
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26. Sense of agency & empowerment that violence gives to the troubled individual that is key. Chance to be in charge, make things happen.
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27. As with ISIS inspired lone wolf attacks, I think the policy lessons here are need for earlier psychiatric intervention & depolorization
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28. A lot of radical jihadi attacks have been stopped because Mosque members & family reported on violence-planning individuals.
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29. Depolorization in case of radical Islam means working with Islamic communities & cutting out the "clash of civilization" talk
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30. In the case of racist terrorism, depolorization is likely harder to do because anti-racism activism will meet with backlash.
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31. Racist terrorism is, as many have mentioned, the oldest, most persistent and violent form of terrorism in USA. Worth asking why.
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32. True depolarization can only occur in genuinely post-racial society. Which we're far from having, to be honest.
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