Fine. If we're going to do this again I'm at least going to push this conversation forward.
What Crowder does, intentionally or unintentionally, is a form of stochastic terrorism. Expect those words to come up a lot more over the next year because it's basically how the far-right, fascist recruitment, and alt-right are going to operate. He doesn't even say "will someone rid me of this troublesome priest", he just says "here's the preist, here's what he's been saying, what do you think?". Someone doxes, the rest flood with hate.
The problem is, stochastic terrorism has excellent plausible deniability. But when you've been watching fashy dog whistles and code in detail the stuff that Crowder does basically springs your fashy spidey sense immediately. This for instance should be required watching:
How can you tell the difference between stochastic terrorism and lone wolves? Someone who could possibly promote stochastic terrorism will sincerely and loudly deny actions by their fanbase and stop inflammatory behaviour. His 20 minute apology video? That's not sincere. That's baiting. Pewdiepie? Doesn't stop with the stupid nazi shit. This is why these people are influences on people that commit these acts of stochastic terrorism.
Anyway, this is probably going to come up again and again written by people far better than me. But that's the phenomenon in a nutshell.
What Crowder does, intentionally or unintentionally, is a form of stochastic terrorism. Expect those words to come up a lot more over the next year because it's basically how the far-right, fascist recruitment, and alt-right are going to operate. He doesn't even say "will someone rid me of this troublesome priest", he just says "here's the preist, here's what he's been saying, what do you think?". Someone doxes, the rest flood with hate.
The problem is, stochastic terrorism has excellent plausible deniability. But when you've been watching fashy dog whistles and code in detail the stuff that Crowder does basically springs your fashy spidey sense immediately. This for instance should be required watching:
How can you tell the difference between stochastic terrorism and lone wolves? Someone who could possibly promote stochastic terrorism will sincerely and loudly deny actions by their fanbase and stop inflammatory behaviour. His 20 minute apology video? That's not sincere. That's baiting. Pewdiepie? Doesn't stop with the stupid nazi shit. This is why these people are influences on people that commit these acts of stochastic terrorism.
Anyway, this is probably going to come up again and again written by people far better than me. But that's the phenomenon in a nutshell.