Let's call the Isla Vista killings what they were: misogynist extremism

[Bernardo de La Paz]

69. I see now I was drawing a distinction that does not matter in this case,

I see now I was drawing a distinction that does not matter in this case, though it might in other contexts.

I though the claim was that he was a member of a group that meets, which didn't jive with the profile. But it turns out he is a "member" of sites. Normally merely having an account at a site ("a membership" if you will) does not mean that you necessarily share the views unless there is party line policing or purist moderators. But in the shooter's case, his writings show that he bought into the sites' views and then some, going way beyond "accessing ideology" into psychotic hyper-rationalization of ultra-extreme beliefs.

It does seem that the sites have played a role in his self-justification and nurturing his festering "wound collecting", a term I read today in a thoughtful piece that I can't find in my browser history.