In my ongoing effort to always be the least popular guy around here, I never understood this tendency we have to identify what ideology killers belonged too.
Whether it's the Muslim Brotherhood, White Supremacists or incels, there are plenty of odious ideologies out there were the vast majority of their members don't go out and blow a building up. People seem to focus on the most politically advantageous, but least instructive explanation for why killers do what they do.
According to this book, he once bought a "White Power" T-shirt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Terrorist
Here's the Vidal essay in case you're interested, published imminently before 9/11/2001: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2001/09/mcveigh200109
In my ongoing effort to always be the least popular guy around here, I never understood this tendency we have to identify what ideology killers belonged too.
Whether it's the Muslim Brotherhood, White Supremacists or incels, there are plenty of odious ideologies out there were the vast majority of their members don't go out and blow a building up. People seem to focus on the most politically advantageous, but least instructive explanation for why killers do what they do.