re: Is Straight White Privillege to Blame for all the Mass Murders?

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"Welp. Another young white guy has decided that his disillusionment with his life should become somebody else’s problem," she wrote. “How many times must troubled young white men engage in these terroristic acts that make public space unsafe for everyone before we admit that white male privilege kills?”

“Black men are not rolling onto college campuses and into movie theaters on a regular basis to shoot large amounts of people. Usually, the young men who do that are white, male, heterosexual, and middle-class,” she added

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I actually agree with her completely to this point. Serial/mass killings is most certainly more prone to be a white male crime than any other group of people. I think I read where something like 90 to 95% of the last 70ish serial killers were white males. hard to argue against her here.

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Naturally, she included racism as part of her screed, pointing a crooked finger of blame at those who disagree with Barack Obama.

"In this regard, the rage at the core of Rodger’s horrific acts is not unlike the kind of middle class, heterosexual, white male rage that drives much of social policy in this country," she wrote, taking a swipe at straight, white males. "In the era of Barack Obama, we have endured a mass temper tantrum from white men that includes a mind-boggling war on women, with an unprecedented rollback of the gains of the women’s rights movement, and an attempt to decimate whole communities of color, which are disproportionately poor, through school privatization, mass incarceration (which began long before the Obama era) and the gutting of the social safety net."

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I don't agree with her here but I'm also not sure where she is getting it from. Have there been more mass killings since he has been in office than other Presidents/time frames?

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I’m also saying that white male privilege might be considered a mental health issue, because it allows these dudes to move through the world believing that their happiness, pleasure and well-being matters more than the death and suffering of others," she added.

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I don't think white male privilege is a mental issue but I do think there are a lot of crazies out there and the more the media plays to them the more this will snow ball. Most are attention starved little shits that want to be noticed and don't care how they get it or for what reason.

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"Can I go ahead and scream yet? A black or brown man would have been violently hauled into a jail and locked up at the first sign of such machinations. His property rights would have been thoroughly violated, and no matter how 'polite' and 'courteous' he might have been with officers, no reports would have reflected such language," she wrote.

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I think we can pretty much guarantee that this wouldn't happen. If she is saying that the cops would have gone and arrested a black man at the first sign of the video and done so violently she is just plain wrong.

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I actually agree with her completely to this point. Serial/mass killings is most certainly more prone to be a white male crime than any other group of people. I think I read where something like 90 to 95% of the last 70ish serial killers were white males. hard to argue against her here.

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This is a common misconception.

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Myth: Serial killers are all white males. Contrary to popular belief, serial killers span all racial groups. There are white, African-American, Hispanic, and Asian serial killers. The racial diversification of serial killers generally mirrors that of the overall U.S. population.

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Can there be any other logical explanation?