Yeah, hey everybody before we get started in all of our normal boisterous way

I just wanted to start this episode out by

saying that I all of us here send our love and support to those affected directly and indirectly by the

terrorist attacks in Christchurch

where two mosques

were the site of mass shootings and over I believe 50 people

were killed and even more were wounded another 50 were wounded

attacks like this

have a

terrible effect obviously on those all directly affected

but also impact those who are targeted in in the broader sense those who are made to feel afraid

by just being who they are

these are attacks meant to tear us apart and to put us against each other and they are attacks that

come from a number of reasons that we need to take seriously and including some

that we have not taken seriously

conversations around the ways in which internet algorithms and internet communities

lead to radicalization questions about white supremacist and white nationalist groups internationally

these are all things that we cannot put to the side because to do so is to say that moments like this are

somehow emerge from vacuums that somehow they are

incidental to the world as it is

that they are that they are not emerging from anything but instead are

blips or flukes these aren't flukes these come from a particular history these come from particular moments in time and reflect

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