Originally Posted by
Skroe
Alright let's take this from the top.
I've been calling the alt-right extremists for some time. Because that is what they are. The only difference between the Alt-Right and ISIS is in the specifics of the ideology. Not the intent, the anger, and evidently now, the method.
Stop me if you've heard this one before. You're an angry teenager or young man. You have limited opportunities for advancement and a challenging economic outlook. Some events occur in your life that push you towards a point of view far out of the mainstream of your country. You start going to websites that act as an echo chamber, manifying your anger and resentment at the people that you see, are at fault for robbing you of your ideal society. You start interacting with these people on line, further radicalizing you.
That is how some stupid twentysomething Muslim kid in the West becomes a self declared ISIS-fighter. That is how Edward Snowden came to believe the crazy things he came to believe. That is how the Alt Right grows and now, has it's very own first terrorist.
The internet radicalizes. It does not care about the ideology. And weak minded people are drawn to the simply world view and simple solutions of these extremist ideologies.
I think if we want to look at the Alt Right, we need to look at Pakistan. Pakistan has many people, particularly in the tribal hinterlands who want to live under Sharia law. It is their religious and cultural system of belief, and they view the "mans law" that the Pakistani government instills, that nominally forbids things like Honor killings, as apostasy. Are they extremists? Yes. They believe an extrem form of islam. Are they all terrorists? No. And who do the extremists who are terrorists kill more than anybody else? Other Muslims.
The alt right are the American equivalent of those who would live under Sharia. They believe an extreme and twisted version of "Western values" that is to the American way what the Taliban and Al Qaeda are to Islam. And look at the result? Our Alt-Right terrorist here, just like ISIS in London and France, utilized a car and drove into the crowd. And who did he injure? A lot of white people who thought he was wrong.
So this was a terrorist attack on Americans, perpetrated by another American. If a Muslim-American 28 year old who declared his allegiance to ISIS from online radicalism drove through a crowd of Veterans at a 4th of July Parade, we would call it a terrorist attack. In this case, a White-American 28 year old who declared his allegience to the alt-right from online radicalism drove through a crowd of anti-racist protesters. It is no different.
Donald Trump, President in Name Only, of course, was not up to the task. I mean, if he had any moral authority left, his deplorable statement today would have shot it dead. But let's just be clear where we are: a White-American extremist terrorist committed an attack, the kind ISIS uses, on other Americans, and Donald Trump, President of the United States, would not call it what it is.