When a terror inducing attack takes place on American soil we are quick to question if it is a organized terrorist attack. We rush to identify to the perpetrator, that way, we can discover his ideology and thus motive then trace that to a particular extremist group.

The Charleston shooter made it easier for us by laying that all out for us in his manifesto.

His introduction to the structured ideology was facilitated by the ‘Council of Conservative Citizens’ the white nationalist group after a simple Google search.

“The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens. There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders. I was in disbelief. At this moment I realized that something was very wrong.”

His misguided anti-black ideology is not an isolated opinion, he merely tuned into a long sustained strain which roots weave through the ever evolving CCC and into the real racist/xenophobic groups and undercurrents of America. His manifesto is merely a reformation of this perpetuated real ideology through his personal lens.

When a collective of people organize under such extreme hostile ideologies they are normally branded as a terrorist group. Well this wolf does have a pack and it lives online.

Coontown (disturbing content warning) is the name of a community 15,000 enlisted users strong on the social bulletin board-like website Reddit. User are able to form groups or communities around a shared interest, movement or in this case, ideology.

Users are openly adamant about sharing the same ideology and rallying around the shooter in these top voted comments within the group discussing the manifesto, please keep in mind 15,000+ pair of eyes intake this:

This instance of in-group fighting stemming from some of the members calling others a coward for not willing to do the same is a troubling form of goading:

This cyber-based neo-KKK utilizes free speech excuse as a form of protection from being removed. Reddit being tapped to form a sort of pseudo-terrorist cell.

Yet when does a group with a radical ideology become a terrorist group? When does a group practicing free speech become cause for concern?

I suggest when a group consciously facilities an echo chamber of hostile ideologies even remotely gearing towards taking action consideration for being put on a terrorist group is paramount.

From the looks of it, things will only get worse if these cells within America are not treated and cleared. These wolves have a home, the packs are growing larger and more hostile and they live online.