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Comment by briandear | Hacker News Reader

Considering that a bunch of Christians were massacred by Muslims in Nigeria around the same time as the New Zealand shooting and those killers weren’t known to be active Internet forum users, your theory seems correct.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/matt-philbin/2019/...

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I don't think a given atrocity that doesn't involve the internet... says anything about what might or might not happen with the internet... your conclusion makes no sense.

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...

You and OP are missing the point - 8chan was a very social echo chamber. Playing video games, even multiplayer ones, don't have social reinforcement of violet and hateful opinions the way that contributing to an image board with hundreds if not thousands of others sharing and echoing your opinion does. It's dishonest to even suggest they're comparable.

Not to get too far down the digression, but... you don't find it odd that the only coverage you can find on that "massacre" is from right wing sources? I mean... terrorist attacks by muslims normally get front page press in the US. Why are they ignoring this one so totally?

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.

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