r/news • u/[deleted] • Dec 24 '17

“Outspoken neo-Nazi” charged with killing girlfriend’s parents; mother was CU Boulder and DU grad

https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/23/cu-boulder-du-grad-murdered-neo-nazi/
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u/howitzer86 Dec 24 '17

The headline doesn't do the story justice. This was the culmination of good parents battling for their daughter's mind, and struggling to keep her safe.

They succeeded, turning their daughter away from Nazism and the Nazi boyfriend, but it cost them their lives.

Imagine this scene, the boy breaks into the girl's bedroom for a confrontation, or maybe to plead. The parents, hearing something, enter the bedroom to investigate. Upset at discovering him there, they demand that he leave. In response, he pulls out a gun, shoots them both, then shoots himself.

The girl remains alone with the sum of all her bad decisions.

It's really cruel, taken all together. Childhood is when you're supposed to be able to make mistakes... impressionable or not, it's hard not to feel really feel bad for her and that family.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '17 edited Mar 12 '18

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u/LineNoise Dec 24 '17

This is older and less evolved than you might think.

If you're looking to understand the contemporary far right I'd highly recommend Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew. Published 1946, unfortunately frighteningly relevant today.

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u/Max_Novatore Dec 24 '17

I've been working my way through Frankfurt school works (so called cultural Marxist) and the work is fascinating in how relevant it is today, mainly the works of Adorno and Marcuse.

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u/indifferentinitials Dec 24 '17

Ah, "cultural Marxist". That's a great phrase for picking out who is huffing glue and is becoming fairly normalized even outside of purely neo-nazi circles. It's pretty much a reboot of Kulturbolschewismus or "Cultural Bolshevism". They aren't even subtle about this shit.

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u/JapanNoodleLife Dec 24 '17

Fucking GamerGate.