All posts tagged "Right Wing Extremist"

The horror show that went down in Las Vegas on Sunday, when Jerad and Amanda Miller reportedly shot two police officers, a third person, and then themselves was awful and terrifying but sadly not surprising. As with Elliott Rodger back in May, the thing that's important to remember is that the absolute avalanche of paranoid, delusional reactionary discourse online and in other spaces is bound to cause some of the self-radicalized people to act out violently. We get this easily when it comes to Islam-inspired terrorism: When young men bury themselves in Al Qaeda-style propaganda online, that things like the Boston marathon bombing tends to follow makes sense. But, for political reasons, there's a lot of pressure to minimize and derail when the issue is right wing or misogynist extremism at home, in no small part because there's a lot of moneied interests that profit handsomely off sowing that kind of reactionary thought.

The world is safer today than in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the United States, with global terror groups weaker than 10 years ago, senior EU and NATO officials said Monday.