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GreatGazoo

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3. While I see their point, Lone wolf has been applied to many white terrorists

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Thu Feb 12, 2015, 08:03 AM

Feb 2015

such as in the title of this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Lone-Wolf-Rudolph-Legacy-American/dp/0060598638

Also widely applied to LH Oswald; and here Tom Metzger self-applies the term:

One practical reason many such individuals act alone, according to researchers, is fear of detection. In “Laws for the Lone Wolf,” white supremacist Tom Metzger wrote: “The less any outsider knows, the safer and more successful you will be. Keep your mouth shut and your ears open. Never truly admit to anything.” (Before 9/11, lone-wolf terrorism in America was overwhelmingly a right-wing affair.)

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/02/lone-wolf-terror-trap-cure-will-worse-disease.html

Also the Batman theater massacre shooter:
https://www.google.com/search?q=lone+wolf+batman+shooter&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Also to Eric Frein is repeatedly called a "lone wolf"

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‘Lone Wolf,’ ‘Self-Radicalized': Islamophobic Buzzwords never applied to White Terrorists [View all] unhappycamper Feb 2015 OP

"the “new atheist” discourse of believers as oppressive and coercive per se is part of his problem" Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #1

all done.......................... Ichingcarpenter Feb 2015 #2

While I see their point, Lone wolf has been applied to many white terrorists GreatGazoo Feb 2015 #3

Actually "lone wolf" is almost always the go to description for white men Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #4

"Lone Wolf" LWolf Feb 2015 #5

And yet it is very common on DU to read that all white shooters are called 'lone wolves' Bluenorthwest Feb 2015 #6

OK. Fine. he was a self-radicalized militant atheist. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2015 #7

The media is falling all over itself to make these murders out as unrelated to their own insipid fearmongering. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #8

What happened in Chapel Hill was horrendous. NuclearDem Feb 2015 #9

"intending to inspire fear" is less critical than "politically motivated violence targeting" Warren Stupidity Feb 2015 #11

Yeah, worded that badly. NuclearDem Feb 2015 #12

Google, WaPo Unabomber, McVeigh "prototypical lone wolf was Timothy McVeigh" One_Life_To_Give Feb 2015 #10