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.
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.