Friday, March 15, 2019

The Globalization of America's Pathologies

There's a lot of awful things about the Christchurch, NZ attack. But what really struck me about the manifesto is this sentence: "I chose firearms for the effect it would have on social discourse, the extra media coverage they would provide and the effect it could have on the politics of United States and thereby the political situation of the world."

So dozens of Muslims were slaughtered in New Zealand because of our fucked-up political discourse, half a world away.