‘Anders Breivik aimed a gun at me and fired’: Surviving Utøya, 15 years on

147 points by Metro-UK 7 hours ago on reddit | 3 comments

[OP] Metro-UK | 7 hours ago

After surviving the deadliest lone-wolf terrorist attack in history in Utøya, Norway, Bjørn Ihler has spent the last fifteen dedicating his life to fighting extremism.

Anders Breivik killed a total of 77 people on July 22, 2011: 69 in Utøya, and eight in Oslo.

Survivor Bjørn Ihler recalls the events as well as the important work against terrorism that he's undertaken since.

Anders Breivik is the more or less "ironic" idol of a fuckton of right wingers, because there's nothing more owning of the libs and commies than killing them.

Yet you can never accuse the parties of being complicit because even though they push pretty much 90% of the same rhetoric and fake myths, technically they didn't advocate for *that* one violence. Of course none of them would like to define itself anti-fascist.

And for each minute of non-white crime, the TVs of most countries will spend 50 times as much time discussing about why yes poor people are closer to the underground world, than for every "misunderstood young men" that just so happened to have nazi tattoos or mottos going crazy.