Anatomy of a "wound collector"

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Over a year ago, The Guardian published a piece on the nearly 100 hate-crimes linked to Stormfront. And these hate-crimes aren’t the hate speech issues or the harassment, they are murders. And they are predictable — like Dylann Roof, they are underachieving, unemployed white men relying on someone else for their money and looking for someone else to blame for their life circumstances.

A typical murderer drawn to the racist forum Stormfront.org is a frustrated, unemployed, white adult male living with his mother or an estranged spouse or girlfriend. She is the sole provider in the household.

Forensic psychologists call him a “wound collector.” Instead of building his resume, seeking employment or further education, he projects his grievances on society and searches the Internet for an excuse or an explanation unrelated to his behavior or the choices he has made in life.

His escalation follows a predictable trajectory. From right-wing antigovernment websites and conspiracy hatcheries, he migrates to militant hate sites that blame society’s ills on ethnicity and shifting demographics. He soon learns his race is endangered — a target of “white genocide.” After reading and lurking for a while, he needs to talk to someone about it, signing up as a registered user on a racist forum where he commiserates in an echo chamber of angry fellow failures where Jews, gays, minorities and multiculturalism are blamed for everything.


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