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comment by dagtooth
dagtooth  ·  3429 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The mental gymnastics of excusing white men's violence

I don't even think most of these guys are crazy. They could be making rational decisions based on faulty evidence. Storm roof thought he would be a hero (and is to some extreme racists), Anders Brevik, the guy who flew his plane into the IRS building, Christopher dorner, the list goes on. These people were not mentally ill. They made a conscious decision and carried it out. They felt (in some of the manifestos) that there was no other choice. I mean some are mentally il some arent, but we have problems underlying our society that go ads this behavior in a way.