Hatred Begins at Home
17th August 2007
Young recruits are often middle class, and their interest is often sparked by an immediate or protracted crisis–the loss of a job, a change in family circumstances. They do not necessarily come from anything particular lacking in the family, but they have nothing to hold onto until this absolute thing, this fundamentalist belief, and its grievances, comes by. Their rage is tended and encouraged by spiritual and operational leaders who offer a sense of community, of belonging and of approval.
Not to mention the fact that they are constantly bombarded by their teachers in school and the headlines in the newspapers that America sucks, and white people suck, and people who are actually working for a living are a bunch of oppressive slavemasters, and the fact that they are pathetic losers isn’t actually their fault.