Sadly we have always had right wing extremists in our midsts to include white supremists. What is changing now is how social media is driving identity politics in Western societies (yes, to include Europe). I will never defend mindless violence, but we should at least put as much effort into understanding why it is happening as we put into trying to understand what drove radical Islamists. Otherwise we'll continue to mindlessly fan the flames of hatred that zealots will exploit on SM. Building resilency in our own societies to reduce our populace's vulnerability to all the illicit noise on SM would be a good first step.
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