8chan is not the problem. People are the problem. If he never made 8chan they would have congregated somewhere else. I think this idea that unsavory websites breed their unsavory bits is pretty close to blaming school shootings on video games.
But realistically how likely is this? For every sub Reddit bans a new one appears on Voat.
But if you put a bunch of racists in a forum together, and there's no grownup there to tell them that this isn't OK, they'll fester and feed back and eventually someone will take things farther than the lulz-seekers originally intended.
Like an aircraft accident, there's no one "fault" here. There are lots of contributing factors. But the ease of access to a welcoming shithole of hate is absolutely a contributing factor.
The argument at the time was that the kids aren't violent, video games make them violent. The analogue here is that the shooter wasn't a radical, 8chan made him one. Shitty people radicalize each other with or without the internet, much less with or without a very specific site.
I mean, Harris and Klebold weren't exactly doing what they thought suburban Colorado wanted.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/matt-philbin/2019/...
Also that talking point about Christians in Nigeria has been a common talking point among folks who seem very interested indirectly playing down the NZ event, and I belive ignores that Muslims were massacred before the Christians in Nigeria just before the Christian event...
It's because it's fake. Or at best unverifiable. Someone took a press release from the Nigerian government about a death toll (not one event), spun, laundered and seasoned until it sounded like a terrorist attack, then launched it as counter press to (pause while I take a breath to calm down) effectively defend the very real, very hateful attack in NZ.
What you just posted is straight up propaganda being used to "both sides" a way out for right wing, white christians to believe that this was somehow justified.