Of course time posts this b.s article
And don't even mention the racism either
Elliot Rodger Isn’t A Product of Our Cultural Misogyny - TIME
"We have an unfortunate trend when mass shootings occur to focus on idiosyncratic elements as potential causes. That is to say, we look for something unique about the shooter to explain why they may have done what they did. The Jan. 2011 Tucson shooting by Jared Loughner was initially (and incorrectly) blamed by some on right-wing political demagoguery. A rare 2010 shooting by a woman, college professor Amy Bishop, led some to speculate on the traumatic experience of tenure denial. Video games are conveniently blamed when the shooter is young, then ignored when a shooter is older."
All of this serves to distract us from the commonalities between such shooters. With few exceptions, they are angry, resentful, mentally ill individuals. Certainly, we are right to worry about the stigmatization of the mentally ill, the vast majority of whom are non-violent. But pretending no link exists at all with these crimes, if anything, prevents us from considering an overhaul to our mental health system that could service all individuals in need, whether at any risk for violence or not.
Talking about a little of this as a cause of one crime and blaming a little of that for another prevents us from considering real comprehensive reform for our nearly non-existent system for addressing chronic mental health issues.
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I'm sure those murders linked to st0rmfr0nt weren't the cause of racism either
And don't even mention the racism either
Elliot Rodger Isn’t A Product of Our Cultural Misogyny - TIME
"We have an unfortunate trend when mass shootings occur to focus on idiosyncratic elements as potential causes. That is to say, we look for something unique about the shooter to explain why they may have done what they did. The Jan. 2011 Tucson shooting by Jared Loughner was initially (and incorrectly) blamed by some on right-wing political demagoguery. A rare 2010 shooting by a woman, college professor Amy Bishop, led some to speculate on the traumatic experience of tenure denial. Video games are conveniently blamed when the shooter is young, then ignored when a shooter is older."
All of this serves to distract us from the commonalities between such shooters. With few exceptions, they are angry, resentful, mentally ill individuals. Certainly, we are right to worry about the stigmatization of the mentally ill, the vast majority of whom are non-violent. But pretending no link exists at all with these crimes, if anything, prevents us from considering an overhaul to our mental health system that could service all individuals in need, whether at any risk for violence or not.
Talking about a little of this as a cause of one crime and blaming a little of that for another prevents us from considering real comprehensive reform for our nearly non-existent system for addressing chronic mental health issues.
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I'm sure those murders linked to st0rmfr0nt weren't the cause of racism either




