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@emmalbriant@mastodon.onlineTurkish Attacker Steeped in Neo-Nazism and Online Gaming Culture https://globalextremism.org/post/turkish-attacker-neo-nazism-gaming-culture/
Global Project Against Hate and Extremism · Turkish Attacker Steeped in Neo-Nazism and Online Gaming CultureA man identified as Arda Küçükyetim, wearing a helmet and bulletproof vest with a Nazi “sonnenrad” on it, stabbed five people, leaving two in critical condition, in the garden of the Tepebaşı Mosque in Eskişehir, Turkey, before being detained by police. The attacker broadcast his assault on Twitter.
@emmalbriant from the perspective of interest in online radicalisation and extremism there is an awful lot to unpack there.
@UlrikeHahn yes true, the gamification of mass violence the article describes is truly horrific though. The most extreme dehumanisation.
@UlrikeHahn it's the stuff of horror movies