"according to the statistical evidence, the ideology of the perpetrators is clear. Right-wing extremism, white supremacy and racial bias are causing the increase in violent attacks."
I'll offer my perspective from a few years back, speaking with my clinical psychologist hat on (that's my day job):
'Hate crimes- it's what insecure cis-gender hetero White males do. It's fundamentally who they are.' (March 18, 2021)
"When males assault and/or murder females, it is always a hate crime.
When white males assault and/or murder anyone because of ‘not sufficiently white’ status, it is always a hate crime.
When cis gender hetero males assault and/or murder anyone because of ‘not sufficiently cis gender hetero’ status, it is always a hate crime...
What is it that prompts White males to spray bullets (and to be able to do so with near impunity)?
The intertwined sociocultural cancers of toxic masculinity and White supremacy.
It’s not hard to see these elements in virtually every episode of mass murder we’ve witnessed with increasing frequency in the past thirty years....
When we have enough data points, we can no longer claim we lack the evidence to say definitively what is happening: White males with fragile egos are slaughtering hundreds of people each year in sexualized dominance displays, precisely because of their feelings of inferiority, of displacement from their ‘rightful’ position atop the sociopolitical hierarchy..."
It’s so sad and incomprehensible to know this country has come to such extreme levels of violence and hatred! But it says a lot about its “founding principles “!!!!……
Well done!
Makes me want to sell some fundraising hats reading “make critical thinking great again “.
"according to the statistical evidence, the ideology of the perpetrators is clear. Right-wing extremism, white supremacy and racial bias are causing the increase in violent attacks."
I'll offer my perspective from a few years back, speaking with my clinical psychologist hat on (that's my day job):
'Hate crimes- it's what insecure cis-gender hetero White males do. It's fundamentally who they are.' (March 18, 2021)
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/3/18/2021642/-Hate-crimes-it-s-what-insecure-cis-gender-hetero-White-males-do-It-s-fundamentally-who-they-are
"When males assault and/or murder females, it is always a hate crime.
When white males assault and/or murder anyone because of ‘not sufficiently white’ status, it is always a hate crime.
When cis gender hetero males assault and/or murder anyone because of ‘not sufficiently cis gender hetero’ status, it is always a hate crime...
What is it that prompts White males to spray bullets (and to be able to do so with near impunity)?
The intertwined sociocultural cancers of toxic masculinity and White supremacy.
It’s not hard to see these elements in virtually every episode of mass murder we’ve witnessed with increasing frequency in the past thirty years....
When we have enough data points, we can no longer claim we lack the evidence to say definitively what is happening: White males with fragile egos are slaughtering hundreds of people each year in sexualized dominance displays, precisely because of their feelings of inferiority, of displacement from their ‘rightful’ position atop the sociopolitical hierarchy..."
Say it loud and far.
ThankYou for your piece. Your voice is an important voice of reason I always appreciate.
Read Joyce Vance piece just prior to your’s on long slog in finding Olympic Park Bomber. The need for meticulous expertise.
Both serve as a path to stay on vs traveling down rabbit holes.
We aren’t however talking about Epstein whether by coincidence or design?
"Until they don't." Such an appropriately, ominous ending...I could almost hear the dissonant chords of an eerie soundtrack keying up. BRAVA!
This reminds me of a saying, "If you keep fucking with demons, eventually you get the devil."
It’s so sad and incomprehensible to know this country has come to such extreme levels of violence and hatred! But it says a lot about its “founding principles “!!!!……