DENVER (AP) — A teenager suspected in a shooting attack at a suburban Denver high school that left two students in critical condition appeared fascinated with previous mass shootings including Columbine and expressed neo-Nazi views online, according to experts.
Since December, Desmond Holly, 16, had been active on an online forum where users watch videos of killings and violence, mixed in with content on white supremacism and antisemitism, the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism said in a report.
Holly shot himself following Wednesday’s shooting at Evergreen High School in Jefferson County. He died of his injuries. It is still unclear how he selected his victims. The county was also the scene of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre that killed 14 people.
Holly’s TikTok accounts contained white supremacist symbols, the ADL said, and the name of his most recent account included a reference to a popular white supremacist slogan. The account was unavailable Friday. TikTok said accounts associated with Holly had been banned.
Holly’s family could not be reached. The Associated Press left a message at a telephone number associated with the house that police searched after the shooting.
Nazis did not have an ideology. They were a grievance movement that utilized a common folk scapegoat (Jewish and Roma migrants) to unify the fractured German political landscape in the Weimar Republic era.
It was a populist demogogue movement that cynically and callously used terminology that was common and popular among poor working class people in order to trick them into believing that their movement was about anything other than hatred, extermination, and pilfering public coffers. The ‘Socialist’ part of their name was a cynical play to attract those who were active in Communist organizing in the early 1900s.
There was no collective ownership in Nazi Germany. The government owned much of everything, and the only parties that benefited from that ownership were the individual cronies that Hitler personally feted. Nazi Germany was socialist in the way that Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation is a Communist state — IN NAME ONLY.
I don’t know a lot about Putin or his claims. Does he go around stating that modern day Russia is communist?
I would disagree whole heatedly that the Nazis didn’t have an ideology and of course it was a grievance movement. Every political movement is a grievance movement. The ideology got laid out cleanly In 1925’s Mein Kampf. I’ve heard the ‘in name only’ argument 100 times. It just doesn’t make sense though.
The Nazis railed against capatism for destroying the German economy, they created large scale public works programs, created the “Strength Through Joy” (KdF) program for state provided vacations and leisure activities, created the “National Labor Service” (RAD) for state run labor, nationalized the labor unions, price and wage controls, rent controls, etc etc etc
Perhaps we have different definitions for what socialism is, but this sure seems like a lot of the Nazi state seizing the means of production to me.