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Here are a few off the top of my head: the death of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville last summer, the nine people killed by Dylann Roof in Charleston, and the two killed by Jeremy Christian in Portland Oregon after they interrupted his anti-Muslim rants. Note that the perpetrators in all these cases are on record as citing racial, ethnic, or religious hatred as motives for their acts.

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You are being incredibly disengenious.

For all these cases, there it is not shown that they going to online forums radicalized these characters and caused them to kill people.

Just as you would not say there is blood on Black activist forums hands because that one radical guy killed all those cops last year.

Unless there is a clear link that people in these forums are encouraging terrorism, the forums are not responsible

Just as you would not say there is blood on Black activist forums hands because that one radical guy killed all those cops last year.

Funnily enough, extreme right-wingers do say this.

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