Guarantee if this kid were of color, the door would have been kicked down while he were sleep. Hope the families of those involved bankrupt this fly by night operation.
These aren't "random" killings though, Elliot had a sick motive to kill people he was jealous of, although he failed for the most part. All these perpetrators, from Elliot Rodger, Christopher Dorner, James Holmes, DC sniper, Fort Hood shooting (Latino btw), Washington Navy yard shooter, VTech shooter to countless others knew what they were exactly doing, they just targeted randomly of the victims they were tired of. So no, the perpetrators are not mostly white privileged males, but the media loves to highlight the white ones more.
By random, i mean its not expected/retaliation like the gang violence that happens in urban inner city areas.
The kid was clearly a racist...but his vengeance was aimed towards females, particularly blonde (aka white) females and the males they were with. Yes, he hated minorities who were with these females, he felt they were beneath them...but he hated EVERY male that he saw with a female he felt should be with him. Oddly enough, he was half caucasian & half Asian. In actuality he hated everyone that he felt had something better than him. He hated his white friends who had been outcasts but who opened up once he got to college and was more popular, dating girls. He hated his roommates and people in his apartment building who were having sex, white couples he saw on the beach together, mixed couples including his sister and the latino who was ******* her. I guess it could be said that he started off by killing his Asian roommates...but he would've done the same to previous roommates too, he'd lived with a bunch over the past few years because he could never deal with any of them who were enjoying life and would move, either home or to a new apartment. Otherwise he didn't even target minorities and really, if all had gone according to his plan it would've been sorority girls who he would've killed along with the guys he saw with them. His first place he would've attacked was a sorority house and he banged on the door but was ignored by them...once again.I disagree, i've had on wingtips, and express on and everything coming from work clean as hell and have gotten stopped and searched from the police because i fit a description.
i hate to make it about race but in the manifesto he clearly hates asians, blacks, latinos, miXed people. of course the white "less superior males" I have no experience in diagnosing people so i cant comment on that exactly but he's been off for a while. it just slowly built up whatever it was.
Guarantee if this kid were of color, the door would have been kicked down while he were sleep. Hope the families of those involved bankrupt this fly by night operation.
I disagree...
no arrest record + not drug related = not a high priority
Anybody could have done the same thing... being black would have got him stopped more while driving around at night...but wouldn't have prevented this scenario
Well the majority of the US population is white, so that that ratio of white mass shooters to minorities are quite the same in ratio to the US population. Sad to say, but it's expected.
Guarantee if this kid were of color, the door would have been kicked down while he were sleep. Hope the families of those involved bankrupt this fly by night operation.
I disagree...
no arrest record + not drug related = not a high priority
Anybody could have done the same thing... being black would have got him stopped more while driving around at night...but wouldn't have prevented this scenario
I think the question is when drugs and a person of color are involved, why does it suddenly become a high priority.
that doesnt speak to this though. If that line of thinking was true than shouldn't that ratio apply to the jail population as well? Whites, who make up 78 percent of the U.S. population, accounted for 35 percent of the state prison population. Blacks, who make up 13 percentof the U.S. population, were 38 percent of the state prison population.
Guarantee if this kid were of color, the door would have been kicked down while he were sleep. Hope the families of those involved bankrupt this fly by night operation.
I disagree...
no arrest record + not drug related = not a high priority
Anybody could have done the same thing... being black would have got him stopped more while driving around at night...but wouldn't have prevented this scenario
I think the question is when drugs and a person of color are involved, why does it suddenly become a high priority.
the war on drugs and racist perceptions/drug laws... we all know this
the people who think race matters in a case of random violence caused by mental illness need to look at the Navy Yard shooter and how he slipped through the cracks even though was apprehended for discharging a firearm BEFORE the incident...and was let go...
The biggest factor is how police are untrained to deal with mental illness...not how police are untrained to deal with white killers
Guarantee if this kid were of color, the door would have been kicked down while he were sleep. Hope the families of those involved bankrupt this fly by night operation.
I disagree...
no arrest record + not drug related = not a high priority
Anybody could have done the same thing... being black would have got him stopped more while driving around at night...but wouldn't have prevented this scenario
I think the question is when drugs and a person of color are involved, why does it suddenly become a high priority.
the war on drugs and racist perceptions/drug laws... we all know this
the people who think race matters in a case of random violence caused by mental illness need to look at the Navy Yard shooter and how he slipped through the cracks even though was apprehended for discharging a firearm BEFORE the incident...and was let go...
The biggest factor is how police are untrained to deal with mental illness...not how police are untrained to deal with white killers
Rhetorical question is rhetorical.
You can say race doesn't matter in this case all you want but if law enforcement didn't see color this likely wouldn't have happened.
Can you imagine if police had knocked on the shooters door two weeks ago and instead a person of middle eastern background had answered them.
I agree with all of this. I just think the notion that the bad seeds are representatives of the entire race is reinforced by good members of that minority group saying things like "we gotta do better."
i agree, saying "we gotta do better" is like accepting the blame.
