Posted on 07/09/2015 8:04:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What’s going on with young American men? Another mass shooting has led to another round of social and political recriminations. A young man—a “loner” and “adrift,” as usual—seizes a vile cause and attacks innocent people. Amidst the wreckage, we look for reasons that already fit our preconceptions about violence, and we blame racism, guns, unemployment, drugs, a bad family, or whatever else helps us to make sense of the tragedy.
But the truth of the matter is that Dylann Roof (at least from what we know) isn’t that different from so many other young, mostly white men over the past 30 years or so who have lashed out against their society in different ways. Although mass killers understandably seize our imaginations and dominate the media, and not all dysfunctional young males are violent and not all of them gain the publicity they crave. Some are terrorists, others are murderers, and some are merely vandals. A few are traitors and deserters.
What they all have in common is their gender (male), their race (most are white), and their youth (almost all under 30 at their peak destructiveness). Beyond this, they seem to share little beyond a stubborn immaturity wedded to a towering narcissism. In almost every case, they dress their anger in the clothes of ideology: white supremacy, jihad, hatred of abortion, or anti-government paranoia. Stuck in perpetual adolescence, they see only their own imagined virtue amidst irredeemable corruption. In a typical sentiment, Roof wrote before his rampage that “someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.”(continued)
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Psychobabble.
What’s the problem? They confederate flag was taken down right? Now we can get back to black people killing white people.
Ya no kiddin'.
What they all have in common is their gender (male), their race (most are white), and their youth (almost all under 30 at their peak destructiveness).
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While the black yutes choose the most vulnerable, a half dozen or so of them beating old white men and women, one at a time but hundreds of them in the aggregate..
I don’t see a big crime problem from them.
The mass shootings are admittedly awful, but they’re rare, and not something unique to current times.
Sorry Mr. Nichols,
I am much more afraid of a pack of young black males in hoodies than I am of some white mass murderer. Out of a country of 350 million a mass murder every couple years is hardly an epidemic. Young blacks are killing people every single day.
Is he describing your half-white, narcissistic president?
Huh? Indeed. ‘Hatred of abortion’?
This guy must get paid by the word.
“What they all have in common is their gender (male), their race (most are white), and their youth (almost all under 30 at their peak destructiveness). Beyond this, they seem to share little.... Stuck in perpetual adolescence, they see only their own imagined virtue...”
SSRIs
The common denominator.
How about the Arab/Muslim men in ISIS? I see a worldwide trend in “lost boys,” but they come in all colors.
It may be a bad argument, but if it gets someone to work on kicking illegals out of the country then I'm all for it.
A whackjob writing about another whackjob. Sheesh, is it even possible to get any more stupid that the author?
There have always been schizophrenics, demented people, sex perverts, rapists, etc. Such people have always abducted, raped, and murdered children and adults.
THE BEHAVIOR OF PSYCHOTICS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, THE HEALTH OF SOCIETY IN GENERAL, OR ANYTHING ELSE.
Mary Kay LeTourneau was/is manic-depressive. I know this from one of her relatives. In all the gallons of ink wasted in “social” commentary on her case, I don’t recall ever seeing a mention of this crucial fact. Why? Because the carryings-on of a manic-depressive are much less titillating, and can’t be worked into agonized ruminations about “what is happening to our schools” and “what is happening to our children.”
“hatred of abortion...”
It isn’t helping to have legalized racial/gender discrimination via affirmative action, either; the state is openly marginalizing young white men. The foolish women conspiring in this with their votes/political & financial support are whining as their eggs dry up and the race disappears; actions have consequences.
When people in the past have posted pics of guys playing video games, I’ve posted that they seem happy so leave them alone - they have no reason to work themselves to death (if they could even find work) for the machine that destroyed our way of life. Let the women go childless, the infrastructure crumble, and whatever follows in the course of this devolution may have more of a need of white guys...
“The Confederate flag has been taken down. Now we can get back to black people killing white people.”........
Pretty well sums it up! At least until another politically correct uprising surfaces.
“What’s the problem? They confederate flag was taken down right? “
It seems the left finds any excuse to deliver what constituents want while Repubs find any excuse NOT to deliver what we want?
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