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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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’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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She also excoriated the police, claiming their inaction was due to Rodger's skin color.

"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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She concluded with a statement calling for some sort of unspecified action against "white privilege."

"As yet another community attempts to make sense of this tragedy, to put itself back together again after this needless, senseless path of destruction that Elliot Rodger has wrought, I’m reminded of something my dad says: 'These are funerals we didn’t have to have.' But as long as America refuses to deal with its white male privilege problem we will continue to have them," she said.

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