That is IMO a tough call sometimes and get’s into a rather slippery slope for most of us.
From what I understand he had both white and black friends. But as I understand he “partied” with, drank heavily and he also did drugs with his “friends” - both black and white. I’m guessing that his drunken and or drug fueled rants were passed of my most of his “friends”, even his black freinds as mere bluster. Most likely none of them took him very seriously in that he would actually do anything, i.e. act out on it.
FWIW, occasionally, very rarely fortunately, I’ve seen some posts here on FR that goes into some very “dark” territory – very racist or anti–Semitic – supporting Neo-Nazi views – and I’m talking StormFront sort of crap and a very few that even called for the cold blooded murder of all gays or suspected gays on sight. I think most of the time it is from some keyboard warrior who talks “big” but is posting from the comfort of his mother’s basement and probably never leaves the comfort of his mother’s basement and would probably faint out cold if anyone actually confronted them “IRL” and fortunately the Mods here do a very good job of removing and zotting all such posters.
But the few that slip by before getting the Zot? What am I supposed to do? Call the FBI? The Department of Homeland Security just because some idiot is spouting racist views?
Unless I have very specific and very personal knowledge that someone I know in real life, is actually planning a mass murder and has the plan and the means to do so and to my knowledge the intention of doing so, it is not my job to report every racist, Neo-Nazi Mother F’er to some government authority just because they spout off their mouths.
I agree in general. I usually completely ignore online stuff. The Government can monitor that on their own. That said people that party together and have a person that goes off the deep end - then it is a different situation when it is right there in front of you. I think I wasn’t clear enough in my first post. In this case there seems to be a large number of people that “knew” Storm had these views. I remember in Holmes case there was some roommates and a shrink but I don’t recall this number of people coming out and saying - Yup that guy is nuts. Maybe Storm is a “good” guy, fun the have around. When I first saw his picture I concluded he was an angry punk (as many here on FR did). If I had seem his picture in a different setting I am not sure what I would of thought past the odd haircut. I do notice that “kids” in his age range tend to be very tolerant of odd behavior - don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. But racist crap needs to be shunned and isolated.
As far as were to go to do something? Hard to say when the family buys the nut job a weapon kinda limits your options.