The whole coverage of this is pissing me off. The guy is white so it is "mental illness" rather than "terrorism".
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Yet whenever someone other than whitey goes on a mass killing they are called a terrorist first and foremost. A couple years ago a guy in St Cloud, who was Muslim with some pretty severe mental health issues went on a stabbing spree and yelled something about ISIS. As a result, the media turned it into a "ISIS HAS AGENTS IN THE HEART OF MINNESOTA" on the front page. That the guy had severe mental health issues was quietly mentioned below the fold on page 4.
Well, it's not like the conduct of US liberals in the aftermath of mass shootings was exactly stellar.
I vaguely remember parts of the liberal punditry going full mental-illness-no-terrorism-to-be-seen-self-hating-homophobe on Omar Mateen, with pretty much no shame and very little respect for his own testimony.
Or you remember the first 48 hours of reflection on the mental state of one Mr. Loughner?
Ooooh! Oh, how hard some tried to convince at least themselves that
this was the face of a cold-blooded, strategically thinking right-wing terrorist.
Another thought on the matter:
It is indeed curious how many cooky mass shooters are, you know, "white".
And we may wonder in what other ways the US is exceptional, besides lack of gun control.
And we may draft a three or four item short list of the major things American society tends to screw POCs out of.
Gee, i wonder where those three lines
intersect ...
Is there more?
Is there another American exception in all this?
Oh right, subjectively estimated 117% of these guys show up to their shooting sprees clad in camouflage and other pointless battle gear. They either are in the military or want to be in the military or are obsessed with police work or security work.
And of course we can follow both lines of coincidence all the way back to Wayne Harris being an Air Force pilot and the USMC rejecting Eric Harris with hateful
ableist prejudice, what with him having too little blood in his Luvox.
And now i am sitting here looking at pictures of Anders Breivik, Beate Zschäpe and Ali Sonboli.
And you know what they have in common?
They don't look as high as a kite.
And then there are Bilal Hadfi and Abdelhamid Abaaoud and all the others. And flicking through the pictures there too is this apparent lack of people who are obviously missing Prince's bathrobe...
What was my point? Oh right:
Compared to Europe most mass killers in the US (and Canada) belong in the upper half of that chart, no matter their complexion.
Both liberals and conservatives however have incentives not to admit how comparatively little terrorism and how comparatively much nutty violence Americans face.