THE STREAM/ Peter Wolfgang-
Two months ago, I warned Stream readers of the New Paganism, a virulent form of racist nationalism that motivated the man charged with the mass slaughter of Muslims in New Zealand. In just the few weeks since Easter, we have seen four more worldviews that have motivated mass violence or the potential of it.
Media bias and political correctness have skewed our ability to see all five motivations clearly. The left will usually talk about guns and nothing else.
But guns alone do not explain mass violence. Neither does obscuring the identity of the victims, or the motivations of the murderers, for partisan purposes. Particular people with particular beliefs use those guns to kill a lot of people.
Here, in no particular order, is my list of the five motivations. Continue reading…
