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tacocat  ·  3449 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The mental gymnastics of excusing white men's violence

You've got a visible pushback on the internet among white males who don't want to be vilified and it asserts itself with stuff like men's rights, the red pill on reddit and people who think social justice warriors on Tumblr represent anything other than misguided social conscious. No one wants to hear that a group they're a part of has an obvious tendency to murder strangers. It turns into " What did I do?" "I never owned slaves." "Why are we still talking about racism? It makes me uncomfortable." I think this carries over to media reports of these type of crimes. It's a sin to generalize any group but white men seem to exclusively go on these rare kill crazy rampages and pointing that out might make a large audience uncomfortable. Saying black men or Muslims do something is done with more tact or careful wording, so flat out stating the obvious, that white men are the only group that goes on murderous rampages directed at certain groups, becomes a difficult topic to carefully word