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‘Salad bar extremism’ has come to Canada, intelligence report says (globalnews.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Silly name imo

Also called composite extremism, it is “driven by a myriad of messaging within mainstream social discourse as well as extremist propaganda that is internalized by an individual,

Reminds me of the Stand Alone Complex talked about in Ghost in the Shell

So many different stories of bad things and symptoms of societal decay and not enough highlighting what's going right and improving that it misrepresents reality, and to some, that triggers an irrational but internally-rationalized fight response that appears incoherent