On Saturday, as an 18-year-old white gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo, NY — in what authorities are calling a racially-motivated …
On Saturday, as an 18-year-old white gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo, NY — in what authorities are calling a racially-motivated attack targeting Black people — viewers on Amazon-owned
Twitch were able to watch it live. Before the shooting, in which 10 people were killed, the suspect is said to have discussed intimate details about his plan in a private server on the popular chat service
Discord. And even earlier, according to a 180-page manifesto seen by Insider and purportedly written by the shooter, the anonymous chat forum 4chan helped radicalize him.
« There I learned through infographics, shitposts, and memes that the White race is dying out, that blacks are disproportionately killing Whites, that the average black takes $700,000 from tax-payers in their lifetime, and that the Jews and the elite were behind this », he wrote, much of which is a reference to the racist « Great Replacement » theory. The horrific event over the weekend in Buffalo follows an eerily similar pattern to other shootings in recent history sparked by racial or religious hatred: White-nationalist radicalization fueled largely by social media, followed by a violent act committed before a live audience.
