Evidence of New Mexico School shooters involvement in the racist "alt-right" is overwhelming
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
February 08, 2018
Keegan Hankes
Officials from the San Juan County Sheriffs Office (SJCSO) in New Mexico dismissed the findings of a recent report by the Southern Poverty Law Center that documented the influence of the alt-right on William Edward Atchison, the 21-year-old man who killed two students Francisco I. Fernandez and Casey J. Marquez and himself at his former high school last December.
Speaking to the Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday, Bryce Current, the internal affairs captain for SJCSO, alleged that the report was an attempt to politicize the tragedy, stating, I dont think this has anything to do with political agenda.
Jayme Harcrow, a SJCSO spokeswoman, also told the AP that investigators hadnt found evidence tying Atchisons motivations to the alt-right.
The SPLC report, however, did not allege that Atchison was necessarily motivated to perpetrate the shooting by the alt-rights misogyny and racism, but rather that he spent years stewing in the online communities and propaganda that define the ideology and intentionally foster grievance, injustice, and resentment all well-documented predictors of mass violence.
Read more: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/02/08/evidence-new-mexico-school-shooters-involvement-racist-alt-right-overwhelming
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)Domestic Terrorism.
If he was Muslim, with all the same other facts, they'd have no problem calling it what it was: Terrorism.
hobby10113
(51 posts)That part of New Mexico is red as can be. Between the ABQ journals racist editorial cartoon and now this. I promise most of New Mexico isnt this bad.
burrowowl
(17,653 posts)But there is the ABQ Journal and a few counties that have a lot of deep;orables.
joshcryer
(62,277 posts)Encyclopedia Dramatica is like the 4chan of Wikipedia's, lots of trolling, bashing people on the internet, purposefully choosing the most repugnant of positions to be "edgy." I was going to link their page but it's easy enough to find (search "encyclopedia dramatica William Atchison" ). The page is extremely fucked up and this guy had more than a few screws loose.
The problem with troll sites like that is that while everyone thinks they're being "edgy" and "funny" and "cool" spewing racist homophobic garbage, kill lists for mass killers, etc, there are at least a few of their users who actually believe the stuff that is on there.
Initech
(100,108 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Facts are not important if they do not match the agenda.
Don't want alt-right under scrutiny? Dismiss the findings!
Climate is weather, abusers are honorable, dictators are adorable.
We thrive on alternative facts, not science!
The good news is that this shit adds impetus to the blue wave.