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He also was plotting attacks at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles during a pride celebration and on an electrical substation in Orange County, Calif., which he believed would start a race war, as well as planned home invasions targeting Jewish residents of Los Angeles, the statement said.
I know “knock out the power to start a race war” is a neonazi trope as part of various plans for mass violence that go back decades, but man, I feel like the writer skimmed over this one just a bit. Are we really at the point where the average Joe reading the news reads that sentence and is like “oh yes, the neonazi conspiracy to throw the entire country into mass racial violence, I need no further elaboration”?
People who pay attention to the news know about it because there were several examples of people shooting out neighborhood transformers in the hopes of kicking off racial mass murder about a year ago.
Back in 2022, yeah. Was there a lot of reporting on the context and origin of that belief at the time? I don’t remember any stories that actually went into the history of it or explained it beyond just mentioning it was a thing and moving on.
Also seems like bad reporting to assume everyone remembers stories from years ago that happened across the country from the current story, especially since the article itself doesn’t connect them in any way.
I don’t think I’ve seen a fully history of create-power-outage-to-set-off-race-war — just some discussion going back over a period of several years and how they Metcalf attack seems to have become an inspirational focal point for it, and some historical discussion of the idea that random sabotage and/or murder could do something like that to the benefit of Nazis, going back to Manson.
RACE WARS!