Stochastic terrorism? It's still a terrorism pipeline.

It's all well and good for you to say "white nationalism is very different from what most people think," but that doesn't stop the OP from being right.

Nationalism of all kinds root from an insecurity, and white nationalism in particular is proppogated in colonial societies to encourage the alienation of brown colonial workers via, among other acts, stochastic terrorism.

It's a lot like ISIS propaganda.

How so?

> it's actually about something very different than most people think

Can you explain what you mean by this?

Yeah it is. I'd prefer not to post example content here on HN, but like most political movements ISIS/jihadis and white supremacists have both a public and private position, and the public one may often appear innocuous or reasonable at first appearance, although there are differences in recruiting tactics, eg https://cchs.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2371/f/downloads/Na...

> it's actually about something very different than most people think and most people haven't actually spent the time understanding their argument before they form an opinion about it.

That was facebook's policy as of yesterday.

They changed it for good reason, and it was not a small reason to overcome that much inertia.

These recent white supremacist terrorists like the Christchurch attacker all have the same white nationalist memes and talking points on their social media. The Christchurch terrorist said in his own manifesto the white nationalist memes played a part in his radicalization. The white supremacist groups in their guides admit that the their ironic racist memes are propaganda to get people in their funnel and progressively radicalize them.

I'm glad that after these white supremacist terror attacks and seeing how these attackers all share the same things on social media, more people are waking up and realizing these memes are like ISIS propaganda.

One dehumanizes people based on religion and the other dehumanizes people based on skin color. They are both cars, one is blue and the other is yellow.

>White nationalism isn't even remotely like ISIS propaganda.

I don't think so. One wants a caliphate, one wants an ethnostate. The end result is the same for anyone who isn't part of the extremist in-group.