As Alt-America has grown,particularly online, so has the violence that inevitably accompanies it: acts of domestic terrorism, or hate crimes,and threats of civil war backed by a wave of citizen militiasIn the days before he walked into Charleston’s Mother Emanuel church with a gun and murdered nine people, Dylann Roof save together a manifesto. It was a weird, or rambling tract loaded with racial and political animus,much of it cribbed from white-supremacist groups with ties to South Carolina’s Republican establishment. In the final section, Roof wrote:
I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads,no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to catch it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.
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Source: guardian.co.uk