Have you guys seen anything about the manifesto? I don't like or care for PDP but the shooter had a ton of sarcasm, irony, memes, racism, facism, shitposting etc. in it. He even had the damn navy seal copy pasta in it and mentioned Spyro and Fortnite. Before we all jump on PDP, lets be real and admit that this dude was straight up crazy lunatic and had loads of internet culture spread throughout his manifesto, with 8chan posts etc. probably so people all have this same reaction to nearly anything he mentioned and try to pin blame on any one person when its a crazy huge list. PDP needs to just disappear after this.
That's kind of the whole problem people have with PDP is that he contributes to that kind of internet culture that you're acting is separate from him, and that his high profile platform makes him a figurehead for these people. A platform he could use way more responsibly than he does.
All the sarcasm, irony, memes, shitposting etc normalize this kind of thinking and make it easier for this type of person to become this. It eases people into treating radical thinking as casual topics instead. The trojan horse of humor lets it find a home in their heads while their guard is down.
If someone repeats this stuff enough and learns to no longer treat it as a serious subject, they no longer respect it. It becomes easier and easier to say, and they start to internalize it without realizing. That kind of language becomes part of their everyday culture.
They laugh at
death to all jews, and now their mind is now more receptive to listening to casual racism than it was before. Then, more okay with regurgitating it than it was before. Time to hit up Xbox Live with the headset!
But it's just jokes! And then further reinforcement, such as promoting altright channels, begins to actually
legitimize it. Uh oh.
You quote that stuff as evidence that people like PDP had nothing to do with it when it does the opposite. Is the dude
solely/directly responsible for the killer's actions?
Of course not. But being specifically namedropped like that tells you a lot about who helped normalize this stuff for the killer, who may have helped these thoughts become casual topics in his mind, who brought that next step a little closer for him. Who these people view as an ally.
And if PDP doesn't like that then he needs to think about how he earned it. Normalizing racism can be harmful, and that can come in the form of sarcasm and memes. Altright conversation is like 90% shitposting if you didn't realize. It's how people ease in while maintaining plausible deniability, to the outside observer and sometimes even
to themselves.
Many people doing it don't even realize the effect they're having on others, because they themselves were conditioned first and are just perpetuating the cycle. Someone doesn't have to be a loud and proud racist to have been negatively affected by racist conditioning.
I won't assume PDP supports the behavior of this killer, but he needs to learn that the way he talks still has an effect on others. And
impressionable children are watching. He needs to be more responsible with his platform so that it doesn't double as the first steps of recruitment.
But considering how hesitant he is to rebuke that demographic of his audience or change his ways, I'm guessing his private views are not very noble either.
Or, in short:
When a mass murderer, terrorist is giving you a personal call out, it's time to re-examine your life.
