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From everything I’ve read on them they feel like the first “incel” type shooter. Like far-right, reactionary, violent, blaming everyone else until it builds up and explodes. The media handled it terribly and muddied the waters on motivations, but I think they’d fit into a similar category to most recent mass shooters
They were both very ideologically inconsistent - Eric Harris was more right wing (but also wrote negative things about Nazis) and had a very chud family whereas Klebold was wearing a hammer and sickle pin when he died (his mother was Jewish). Both had had girlfriends although Harris’s girlfriend broke up with him after he pretended to kill himself.
I’d pin it on capitalist alienation, stupid kids and a martial US culture more than the very clear ideological motivations of many recent mass shooters.
I mean yeah, it wasn’t a politically/ideologically motivated shooting, but at the same time both of them were the types that are targeted and recruited by far-right groups every day. It wasn’t comparable to, say, the Christchurch shooting, more like Aurora/VT/Sandy Hook, but they could have easily gone down a more ideological path if their aggression was manipulated and pointed at a target. But maybe I’m wrong
