Two recent school shootings are highlighting what extremism researchers see as a growing — and poorly understood — trend among young people who embrace mass violence.
The US as a whole has gotten more extreme (we just elected a guy that praised Hitler), but we also have kids born into a world where school shootings are a common occurrence. Kids are surrounded by adults that hate people that don’t fit the “norm”, that fear everything, and then they see violence everywhere.
I mean we just re-elected a guy that used violence in an effort to overthrow the government, and not only did we not punish him, we gave him that highest position in our government. He then freed the people that carried out his orders.
The Right has also embraced the Proud Boys and other domestic terrorist organizations. The President met with a former Grand Wizard of the KKK, and told people that Nazi’s marching with tiki torches chanting “Jews will not replace us” were “some very fine people”.
The vogons were right
Adults: destroy world for next generation
Children: become nihilists
Adults: surprised_pikachu.jpg
Don’t shoot children, shoot CEOs
At some point we have to consider if our culture and society isn’t just sick, and these children are not products of online trends, but more the inflamed pustules of the feverish patient.
My take away: America has had school shootings for long enough to have statistical analysis applied.
My take away before mass shooters there were spree killers, it is the same mental disorder in a new generation
Columbine was almost 26 years ago. So the only people who haven’t had the experience of being in school during the risk of shootings are in their late 40s and older.
Results were politically wrong so they dismissed them :)
This is both very true and very sad!
“Young people” are less cynical and have a harder time surviving in a society with many arbitrary taboos, censorship, and other injustices.
