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the term is "radicalized" but it's used so often it's lost all meaning. I'll bet good money these fucks were consuming conservative media, eventually one or both of them reached the tipping point where they basically thought they were soldiers in a day-to-day war, they feel emboldened because there are so many like-minded people bubbling up these days, they felt like they had a big community behind them thanks to the parasocial effects of conservative media.
These people obviously didn't grow up right, but absent today's fucked up hate pipeline that is conservative (read: almost all) media, I doubt they'd have been radicalized enough to do this.
It does show how right we were over the past decades, warning that latent racism had not ceased but instead was simmering under the surface of Everytown America.
I think you've put the cart before the horse, sorry to yell at clouds but I was raised in a "small town" and I can tell you that racism was rampant long before the media became so invasive (pre-internet).
They're not trying to influence as much as they are chasing the dollar, they are catering to a big market. These people have always thought they were race warriors, and holy at that.
For real turn on a conservative radio station every now and then to hear just completely unhinged bullshit. They jack that retard muscle hard on those stations
Same everywhere, the world is doomed!!!