The point is not that white supremacist terrorism is worse than Islamist terrorism or vice versa. They arise from the same place. These are toxic young men who can't handle the modern world and it's message that you can't dominate people anymore. You can't rely on your penis to give you some sort of license to rule over other people. You want to do it? It's going to take hard work and a little luck.
There are undeniable economic forces both for rural white Americans and Muslim Europeans that marginalize them. But the women are under those same strains and they don't drive cars into crowds - at least not that often.
It is not just that young men are overwhelmingly the largest demographic to commit violence. The difference between the drunk frat boy getting in a fight and a Nazi or a takfir jihadist killing people is the certainty of their righteousness combined with that simmering anger and threat of violence.
I've long wondered if perhaps the relative safety and security of the world most of us live in isn't somehow responsible for all this. These young men have a biological craving to protect their tribe. They all do, but they have no outlet for it. Where does that anger go? I'm afraid we are finding out.
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