[TheVrist]

The mainstream media still twist the narrative to attract ratings. That is nothing new.

Most current events don't even cover the actual event but highlights fabricated hype surrounding the event.

Race is a hot topic. So ANY event that happens where a black is a victim, the act gets placed on the back burner, and this "doomsday race is a problem" issue makes the main spotlight.

Most of the recent "racially motivated" events, have nothing hard evidence to back the racial accusation other than assertions by media.

[rob666]

Originally Posted by TheVrist ↗

The mainstream media still twist the narrative to attract ratings. That is nothing new.

Most current events don't even cover the actual event but highlights fabricated hype surrounding the event.

Race is a hot topic. So ANY event that happens where a black is a victim, the act gets placed on the back burner, and this "doomsday race is a problem" issue makes the main spotlight.

Most of the recent "racially motivated" events, have nothing hard evidence to back the racial accusation other than assertions by media.

Well, this one is pretty strong.

He went into a Church that was prominent during the push for civil rights, and announced his reasons.

I've even seen posts on this site, from a few people in particular, that mention the fear of minorities "taking over".

[TheVrist]

Originally Posted by rob666 ↗

Well, this one is pretty strong.

He went into a Church that was prominent during the push for civil rights, and announced his reasons.

I've even seen posts on this site, from a few people in particular, that mention the fear of minorities "taking over".

And most-if not all nutcases that went through with their insane acts build a false reality for themselves.

Let's face it, he was a REAL nutcase, that most likely used all this racial shit as a catalyst for his act.

If we account for all of the past mass shooters, they did the same shit, different obsessive causes. they all go through a period of manifestation before they come to the point of the act. This kid did the same thing, it just so happened to be a race thing.

Now saying media has any play? Well, that iS a probable thing to consider, considering the timing, and the subject of psychotic behavior.

The reality here though, he was fucking nuts, and the media should be focused on that, and less on rather it was a genuine hate crime. For all we know, we could have MORE people with the same fucked brains, sitting hovered over their PCs typing away about it, with CNN, MSNBC, FOX blaring in the background plotting the same shit.

Maybe even in this!! mwhahaahaha

[kellyhound]

too many nutcases roaming the streets

[PTSD Is My Life]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

too many nutcases roaming the streets

True...but now there are 10 less. 9 in the morgue and one in jail!

[OhJstFkOffAlrdy]

This dude isn't a nutcase. The real nutcases are the assholes who stab someone in a bar fight over spilled beer, or who shoot up a 7-11 parking lot because someone scuffed up their white sneakers.

Compared to the kind of assholes that most people are nowadays, I don't consider mass shooters to be crazy anymore. They're just alienated from a society that's turned alienation and mental health into trillion-dollar industries. It's hard to feel guilt or empathy for a faceless mass of a species to which one feels no real connection. Inheritable traits and environmental factors also play a part, but sometimes I can't help but feel as if society meets its mass murderers halfway in certain instances.

[Pyramid_Head]

Shooting defenseless people; what a little coward.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by Metal Mike ↗

This dude isn't a nutcase. The real nutcases are the assholes who stab someone in a bar fight over spilled beer, or who shoot up a 7-11 parking lot because someone scuffed up their white sneakers.

Compared to the kind of assholes that most people are nowadays, I don't consider mass shooters to be crazy anymore. They're just alienated from a society that's turned alienation and mental health into trillion-dollar industries. It's hard to feel guilt or empathy for a faceless mass of a species to which one feels no real connection. Inheritable traits and environmental factors also play a part, but sometimes I can't help but feel as if society meets its mass murderers halfway in certain instances.

So it's not crazy to kill a bunch of the God squad for being black?

[Illusion]

[OhJstFkOffAlrdy]

Originally Posted by Top Gear ↗

So it's not crazy to kill a bunch of the God squad for being black?

Crazy is as crazy reasons. Roof may harbor feelings of great misanthropy and rage towards society and people in general, but that's only incidental to his actions in Charleston. His apparent motives as near as can be determined thus far were racial hatred and the calling of public attention to his beliefs; so it's not completely analogous to what motivated the likes of your typical "psycho" spree killers like Cho and Harris & Klebold in that simply murdering a group of people and then self-destructing was the means to as well as the ends of whatever it was that they felt they were trying to accomplish. On the one hand, there's the common thread of revenge against society or a particular demographic thereof; but on the other hand, Roof strikes me as considerably saner by comparison because unlike your typical self-fragging killing machines, he evidently never planned on overriding his own instinct for self-preservation.

What Roof did is more an act of social/political/racial/religious terrorism in that he wished to accomplish something beyond just the act itself, perhaps to effect change or spark a race war. It could also be that he was simply making a statement, but it's clear that he wants that statement to resonate. I'm sure personal notoriety has a lot to do with it, but it seems to me that it's simply a matter of having his own name attached to a cause that he believes in.

When I heard that he had managed to evade capture and was at large for a while, I knew that it wasn't just another self-destructive spree killer simply looking to go out in a blaze of blood and bullets. But again, I would consider neither him nor the other mass murderers I mentioned to be truly crazy. They're sane. They're just enraged, alienated, and -- at least in Roof's case -- "standing up for what they believe in." It's not as if God or some split personality told them to do it, so to me their "why's" are easily understood.