China’s authoritarian government puts that sort of thing down fast. And Japanese society, which heavily imbues a strenuous work ethic and shame of self, has contributed more to the country’s suicide epidemic than highly targeted violence.
That’s not to say that isolated incidents - mostly via knives and in relation to sectarian conflicts - have not occurred.
Soundbites like that are worthless, but I would be surprised if deep reporting wasn’t happening to figure out how the suspect became so hateful in any case.
Perhaps my immediacy was wrongly placed - journalistic coverage never affords enough attention to the direct victims of these things and might never be able to, but the current moment should be theirs - but I think completely missing any angles that could be found there would lead us to the fallacy that all of the factors leading to radicalization were self-evident or presumable.
We know what he subscribed to - and by god should we not promote it - but we don’t know why.