Don't see how or why Warren or Sander's words would've inspired him specifically, however I do think that there's a distinct possibility that the Dayton shooter's actions may have been racially motivated. Six of the nine people he murdered were black. One of the whites he shot just happened to be his race-mixing sister (along with her black boyfriend), so the possibility of his rampage having been racially motivated doesn't seem like much of a stretch to me.
Whether his particular motives were or not, I've never been under the impression that that white supremacist sentiment is a uniquely Right-sided thing.
And from what I've gathered, the Dayton shooter was also an atheist which didn't come as a surprise to me at all. He wasn't the first one and I doubt he'll be the last. Anti-blackness and deep misogyny doesn't appear to be any less prevalent among white atheists than it does among the general white population. Actually, it seems to me that today's radicalized white supremacist is more likely to identify as irreligious than anything else, and the Left certainly doesn't seem to be immune from that trend. More and more of them appear to be taking to identitarian politics like ducks to water.
Liking the idea of redistribution of wealth and scoring free shit doesn't stop them from hating n***** and/or various assorted "others"; women, Muslims, immigrants, etc.
I suspect that the motives of mass shooters converge in their sense of entitlement; They feel they should be guaranteed a certain level of success, sexual access to women, respect or whatever by virtue of simply being born into the skin they're in and see fit to blame and kill others for their mediocrity and shitty lives.
Whether his particular motives were or not, I've never been under the impression that that white supremacist sentiment is a uniquely Right-sided thing.
And from what I've gathered, the Dayton shooter was also an atheist which didn't come as a surprise to me at all. He wasn't the first one and I doubt he'll be the last. Anti-blackness and deep misogyny doesn't appear to be any less prevalent among white atheists than it does among the general white population. Actually, it seems to me that today's radicalized white supremacist is more likely to identify as irreligious than anything else, and the Left certainly doesn't seem to be immune from that trend. More and more of them appear to be taking to identitarian politics like ducks to water.
Liking the idea of redistribution of wealth and scoring free shit doesn't stop them from hating n***** and/or various assorted "others"; women, Muslims, immigrants, etc.
I suspect that the motives of mass shooters converge in their sense of entitlement; They feel they should be guaranteed a certain level of success, sexual access to women, respect or whatever by virtue of simply being born into the skin they're in and see fit to blame and kill others for their mediocrity and shitty lives.
