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BUFFALO PAYS PRICE OF WEB'S WHITE LIES

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Vincent
Published date19 May 2022
Publication titleEvening Gazette
Within minutes of twisted teenager Payton Gendron's evil race-fulled terror attack, US politicians offered their usual hollow prayers and condolences

Attending the shooting scene in Buffalo, New York, it was clear to me their words were meaningless to the relatives of the people the 18-year-old shot dead.

The reasoning for bigoted Gendron's attack was laid out in a sick 180-page manifesto the teen had published online before taking out his weapons to kill.

He is the latest in an ever-increasing line of far-right fanatics whose hatred of other races has become so toxic that they felt the need to kill.

Not only did Gendron lay out in meticulous detail his sadistic plans and abhorrent views, his ramblings even included a call for London mayor Sadiq Khan to be killed.

In the coming days, we will undoubtedly hear from officials that he was a lone wolf - a claim, they will argue, that is backed up by his own words.

"I am the sole perpetrator of the recent attempted mass shooting," Gendron wrote within his manifesto.

But nothing could be further from the truth. For without the views of others being published online for everyone to read, it is doubtful the once quiet school kid would have turned into a killer.

Gendron himself admits he was radicalised over the years through the internet. He said the process had accelerated in the early months of the pandemic when he became immersed in the far-right extremism and violent white supremacy he was reading about on the web.

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