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[Music] adam waffen emerged onto the scene in 2016. since that time there have been five
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murders linked to adam often as a nascent group that's a pretty high number if you were
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to ask the average person here in the united states they'd have no clue of what or who this group is and yet it is
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important to tell the story they operate very differently than other white supremacist organizations
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they prefer to surprise their enemy they're not like patriots they're not on the street marching they're you know
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hiding away the idea is they do these kind of hit-and-run attacks they don't want to you know take office
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they want to burn the office adam waffen wants publicity they're notorious for their propaganda
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these guys are running about with aks they've got uniforms they've got logos they're kids of the internet
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they know what works there is not a typical member who's drawn to this group but demographically speaking we can say
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that they skew young and they skew male disenfranchise young white men obviously they've got a lot of
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rich upper class kids some people radicalize and adam often with their propaganda
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with their messaging with their sense of belonging with the conspiracy theories that the system
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needs to be overturned that resonates with some of these individuals it's the lone wolf people
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and there are so many lonely confused young men it is a group that we should absolutely
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be concerned about there's no getting rid of them i think you just have to make people scared to
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join them you can't allow these kids to be advocating for killing i don't think the
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the answer is like censor them everywhere and ban them everywhere i think the answer is like try and
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understand it try and like stop it before it happens adl has this notion that if hate can be learned hate
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can be unlearned we are not all born bigots