Like many others I’m struggling to make sense of the terrible events in Norway. What kind of twisted ideology could prompt someone to do this?
Some things I’ve read on the web this morning sent a chill down my spine and made me break out into a cold sweat.
Several years ago, I used to post reviews to the music and culture reviews site Blogcritics.org. I became disillusioned with the site after the increasing political content, and the sort of unpleasant people that content was attracting.
The last straw was when proprietor Eric Olsen gave a soap-box to very unpleasant anti-Islam hate pieces authored by a far-right Norwegian using the pseudonym “Fjordman”. I resigned from the site, because I didn’t want my own writing to be associated with what was clear to me was the writings of a neo-Nazi.
Now I see Twitter is awash with speculation that “Fjordman” and the perpetrator of the terrible massacre in Norway may be the same person. Even if they’re not, the likelihood that they both frequented the same murky corner of cyberspace is extremely high.
I feel dirty.
Wow, that is pretty awful. Well, what could anyone do other than stop writing there, like you did?
Seems unlikely that the Blogcritics writer was actually the terrorist, but they’re both swimming in the same toxic cesspool.