It's sickening to read about things like this happening. As disturbing as this crime is, I am also not a huge fan of how many people react to things like this. The more time people spend analyzing and discussing the perpetrators of these horrible crimes, then we're giving these people what they want: attention. Mourn the victims, talk about how great they were and how it's sad that they are no longer with us, but some people want to give the killer attention and start debating about if he's a terrorist or not, what the fuck is the point? To me if you simply label the guy a nutjob and dismiss him as almost less than human, then it's the best thing you can do along with punishing him according to the law. One of the things that helped to weaken the power of the KKK in the south was exposing their ridiculous rituals. Once it came out publicly many members were ashamed and stopped going back.
If you want to start to label him a terrorist and lump him in with Al Qaeda, then you're letting him win, you're almost lending his cause credence, as "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." Do you really want to give overtly racist people the idea that committing acts like this could somehow be a legitimate political means to the ends they want? He even says in his manifesto the event that triggered it was the media attention thrown at the Trayvon Martin case. If that case isn't given as much national attention, hell maybe this kid never goes over the edge. Maybe he just spraypaints "N*****" on someone's house, and either carries on with his racist beliefs or finally realizes he's fucking retarded. If media outlets start to talk about this as a terror attack, I really only see that having a negative effect.
I realize that this is only a game forum, but there are a good number of people who browse these forums and play here that have issues. Everquest is a game synonymous with dependency issues, and we've seen cases here that have translated into real world violence. There are clearly some overtly racist people here as well, so trying to label this guy a terrorist seems like a bad idea to me. Terrible human being? Yes. Mentally disturbed? Yes. Terrorist? Please, lets not give him that kind of credit
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