(05-17-2022 07:52 AM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  

(05-17-2022 07:44 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  I'll also ask again, what is problematic with stating that white nationalism was a driving (if not THE driving) force behind this attack?

Because it wasn't THE driving force, or the root cause.

What good does "addressing white nationalism" do if they nut jobs are still out there looking for reasons? They're the ones generating a lot of the stuff. How do you address an ideology, in a pluralistic and democratic society, without getting at what makes these people go off the deep end in the first place?

For one, I haven't talked about "addressing white nationalism" as you're claiming I have.

I have been very focused on the idea being posted here - which is that white nationalism was not the driving force or root cause for this heinous act.

Why does the inability (or rather difficulty, I'd argue) of addressing something like white nationalism, render that ideology incapable of being the root cause or driving force of a terrorist act?

The logic you proffer in this post argues just that, and I find a serious flaw in that line of thinking. What it does is it takes away the agency of the person who committed such a crime and portrays them as someone who was just compulsive and didn't make the conscious decision to ingest the gross bile of bigotry and then turn that hate outwards and take the lives of others.