I think a lot of radicalization happens in spaces where it’s all talk. Everything is hypothetical. It’s easy to larp as a revolutionary, as someone who stands against oppression. There’s a lack of seriousness about it all. You start to believe the memes. You start to believe you’re a hero, you’re the main character. Then you convince yourself to do something really dumb, like pull your car in front of police officers. They draw their guns and the larp crumbles, you’re not that person, this is real life and those are real guns. Nothing but get the hell out of here screams in her brain. She probably didn’t see the officer standing in front of her car as she smashes the gas.
The officers can’t know this of course. They don’t know what she’s thinking they just know when guns were drawn asking her to step out of her vehicle she slammed in the gas on the direction of an officer. They’re not in a Larp. Their job is real and they encounter people who want to kill them. So they fire.
No one in this woman’s life told her she’s on a retarded destructive larp. She was encouraged by her peer group. Viral videos of similarly lost radical larpers getting nothing but praise online. Politicians calling the enforcement of our laws akin to Nazis, calling them illegitimate, calling them evil. Telling their citizens to make their voices heard. Everyone in her life failed her. She needed someone to tell her to grow up. Instead she had no one and now she’s dead.
A horrible case of internet radicalization.
The officers can’t know this of course. They don’t know what she’s thinking they just know when guns were drawn asking her to step out of her vehicle she slammed in the gas on the direction of an officer. They’re not in a Larp. Their job is real and they encounter people who want to kill them. So they fire.
No one in this woman’s life told her she’s on a retarded destructive larp. She was encouraged by her peer group. Viral videos of similarly lost radical larpers getting nothing but praise online. Politicians calling the enforcement of our laws akin to Nazis, calling them illegitimate, calling them evil. Telling their citizens to make their voices heard. Everyone in her life failed her. She needed someone to tell her to grow up. Instead she had no one and now she’s dead.
A horrible case of internet radicalization.
There won’t be any long NYT articles about the dangers of online radicalization of women. Even though they consume endless far left propaganda and start parroting genuinely insane racial bigotry, and start attacking LEOs. Even though we have the studies showing the massive swing in left wing politics women have. Even though they were the only group to reliably vote left in the last few elections. There will be no discussion about their endless TikTok political slop.
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