← Back to context

Comment by jacquesm

9 years ago

When they start dressing the part, take part in torch carrying marches shouting slogans about mass murder.

Maybe. But many of them could still be in it for the lulz.

I mean, many gangbangers are fundamentally after lulz.

  • That doesn't mean it is something we need to either encourage or condone.

    • No, it's not. But it helps to put the phenomenon in context. The anomie of the young, especially young men, has always been hazardous. But now, with the Internet, it's chaotic around strange attractors. Such as the alt right. And ISIS. And undoubtedly other stuff that I'm not aware of yet.

      4 replies →