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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

When a school shooter shoots kids do you get inspired towards violence? No. So you are looking at the wrong direction for the inspiration source.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

do you think a school shooter gets the same amount of praise and good wishes that Luigi does?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think a school shooter could inspire copycats the same way a CEO shooter could.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

The prosecutor here is not talking about the typical shooter copy cat, he is talking about hundreds of thousands of people who felt sympathy towards the person who killed this CEO (whether it be Luigi or someone else). So they are not really the same thing.

Moreover the sheer amount of support Luigi gets from all types of people tells what the difference is.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes. Atomwaffen and other Nazi cults consider the white ones “saints” and make fan cam edits.

There’s been a columbine “fandom” in tumblr for more than a decade.