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user-inactivated  ·  3445 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The mental gymnastics of excusing white men's violence

I don't think it's okay to generalize anyone. People say "the poles are coming over here and talking our jobs" but oh well. They're here legally same with all of the immigrants to the UK.

I think the US has some seriously bad ideas regarding race, social standing and class. Not to mention that but gun legislation is so neanderthalic that there seems to be no stop to this violence now.

As for villified white males, I don't think it's fair to say that we all share the same ideals just as people shouldn't think of all muslims as terrorists. The kid was crazy and racist and radicalised. I'm not blaming it on mental illness because it's obvious it was a hate crime. But surely there is something wrong with the system which means that the government, schools and workplaces allow this kind of kid to be spat out. Just as people in the middle east are being taught of IS ideals and then joining IS. People in the US are taught to be racist. John Stewart made a point. The US celebrates it's history and to be honest most of US history is terrible and just plain wrong. I think the US needs to move on from it's past and teach kids the things that make them fucking tolerant.