Breivik's American influences

[tangaroa]

I was writing a long post about how the Norway terrorist Anders Behring Breivik shows an American influence in his writings. His "European" values looked like conservative American values, his grievances about "political correctness" took after Limbaugh, his vision of 1950s Europe and even his focus on the 1950s are American. There is a good reason for this. The sections that I was analyzing, from page 11 until I stopped reading, were written by American author William S. Lind under the title "Political Correctness: A Short History of an Ideology". Breivik's contribution was to change a few words: "American" to "European" and such. There's no point in pointing out that an American author appears influenced by American culture.

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A few other analyses:

• He copied parts of the Unabomber Manifesto word for word.
• He got his ideology from the right-wing Internet.
• He created a Christian justification for violence to parallel the justification for violence used by right-wing Islamic groups.
• He shares Nazi dislike of the Jews, but does not consider them a major threat anymore thanks to the Holocaust.