Individuals from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds can become radicalized online. Can you provide evidence to support your statement that the MSM in the US avoids reporting radicalization of white males?
Can you provide evidence to support the suggestion that white males are more likely to become radicalized online than males of other racial groups?
Firstly, I am not saying that they are radicalized more than other racial groups.
And I am only relying on my own sloppy memory that so many of the mass shooters in North America over the last decade as well as all the many far right wing militias out there and the Proud Boys and the Jan 6th Insurrectionists and Timothy McVeigh and maybe there are some other ones that just don't come to mind at the moment who all are then found to have become radicalized in white race supremacy and fear of brown people, black people, Asians and Jews as a result of the consumption of a steady diet of extremist stuff on line and in their get togethers to celebrate their KKKness, often at rallies since 2015 particularly.
And maybe because of my race bias, I just am not paying attention to all the mass shootings and bombings and insurrection riots being instigated by non-whites, except for the few that have been motivated by radical islamic hatred.
Unlike the 60's and civil rights fight, it doesn't seem that Black Power radicalization has much sway now. And I will not accept the periodic reaction of black communities to acts of violence against them as being equal to the radicalisation based on ideology because of the episodic nature and short bursts of destructive reactionary violence. If anything it has coalesced around Black Lives Matter type of collective movements that keep trying to tackle systemic and instituionalized racism.
But MSM does tend to gloss over radicalization generally. And only to touch on it briefly because it lays bare some really uncomfortable truths about media influence generally and electronic media even more specifically. Most often they aren't digging into the radicalization anymore unless, as I noted, it has the audience appeal of being radical islamic conditioning. In the anti-muslim post 911 era it was all the rage and lots of ink and bytes were spilled to try to analyze how it had occured in the west. And even then more often than not, the MSM has tended to try to give comfort by going with the Lone Wolf trope and of course, mental illness without going much further.
During Trump's first term there was a lot of discussion about the radicalisation of white males in America and it has continued up to recent papers and studies.
A number that I have read, because like the MAGAt phenomenon, I am fascinated at how group think among hate groups takes hold, whether it what led up to the rise of the NAZIs and Fascists in Europe in the 1930's or the hypercharged mass messaging and manipulation of bias in the current period.
Lots to read here.
www.newyorker.com
