And the incels, etc...True, it happens all across the ideological spectrum... the point being that they were recruited because they were screwed up to begin with.
A year or so back a video began to circulate on the internet.
It's a cartoon showing a teenage boy who is being harassed, shunned, and generally getting trod upon by society for being "different". This all changes when a trio of alt right peeps find him and reach out to him. Soon, his grades are going up, he's getting buff, and now that he's an adult he's rolling with them. Before too long, he's got an honest job, is married to a woman he "saved" from lesbianism, and owns his own home.
Sounds ridiculous, right?
Except... That's how things happen for a lot of people. It's not so much that they're "screwed up" as it is they feel that they and theirs have been wronged somehow.
Consider for example actor Liam Neeson. Last year he admitted that after a female friend was raped by some black men he spent the next several months going into primarily black neighborhoods and trolling for fights. In his eyes, it didn't matter who he started fighting; everyone was just as guilty of what happened to his friend. It took some time for him to realize how foolish and petty he was being.
Think about the guy whose job just got shipped off to China.
Or the guy who follows every female-written advice guide he can find on how to appeal to the ladies but is still told he's not what anyone is looking for.
Or the guy who didn't get promoted because the EEOC said his company didn't have enough women / minorities in that particular management position.
Or the guy who opened up his newspaper and read about the horrors of Rotherham ->
Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal - Wikipedia .
Or the guy who has had one too many "woke" types tell him that as a white male all he's good for is cleaning their boots and giving them money.
(No, seriously; there are videos showing members of various black supremacist groups going up to white people and demanding that they be given cash as instant reparations.)
Or the guy whose leftist neighbors treat him like he's a hideous monster because he's a military veteran.
Or the guy whose kin just had their land stolen or poisoned by a corrupt bureaucrat / businessman / environmentalist / what have you.
Et cetra.
These people are going to be driven by fear, anger, or some combination thereof. But regardless of what they're feeling, society is as a whole going to want to tell them to just suck it up and move on.
That's when these different groups come in and tell them that it's OK for them to feel like they do, that they were indeed done wrong, and that if they hang with the group things will turn around for them.
Oh, the whole "Let's punch Nazis!" bit you see from so many people on the Left? Yeah; that's just going to reinforce the decision these people have made to join these groups, as they see the people who wronged them wanting to use violence to further suppress them.
