You're a really good example of how defensive dudes get when they get anything close to the treatment women and minorities get all the damned time. And his status as a white dude has everything to do with this situation, and with every other situation where some white dude didn't get what he felt entitled to and…

I literally meant "you" as in the individual and not in the general sense, so yes.

Yeah. Besides it's like "since he ended up murdering people, she obviously didn't do the right thing" when we don't know. What if she hadn't isolated him and he had murdered his high school classmates? Would she be responsible for not keeping him isolated, then? Either way, the mom who is struggling alone with a…

Guess we're going to ignore that most of these murderers are white and male. When their lives start sucking, they lash out because someone else has to be punished, somebody other than them. Can't be them. It's somebody else's fault——they're supposed to have happy shiny lives.

Well, I can see why she would. She probably didn't want him to be institutionalized and get murdered by an ill-equipped institutional worker. Of course, hindsight is 20/20.

See, and as a mother, I feel so much sympathy for her, because I understand the fierce desire to protect your child, especially (I'd imagine) a fragile child.

Reading this makes me angrier than I already was that people accused his mother of being so irresponsible as to raise a mass murderer and blamed her for her own murder and the murder of children.

"[...]her willingness to indulge his isolation may well have exacerbated the problems it was intended to ameliorate."

Here is your problem: you are confusing idle, fairly irresponsible speculation by a nonprofessional with an actual diagnosis.

listening to Americans talk about "doing something" about mental health care is like listening to that lazy roommate talk about how he's going to turn his life around.

You have got a point. I've never thought about this before, but you are right. We very rarely see kids of a different race - that have commit crimes -being analyzed to such an extent. "There must be something psychologically wrong with him! Why would he do such thing?"

Oh good, more thinkpieces on a white murderer so that we can understand how someone can be a 'default person' and still commit a crime.

You don't just wake up one day and become a rapist. What else has he done?

"This is an anomaly. This is not what our police officers do"

This is a patently false statement.


Surely, no true Scotsman would do such a thing.

This just makes me sad to live in a country where the charity of a dentist is required for someone to actually get teeth.

That's scary, that it really is no one's purview... it isn't like this is a brand-new human behavior. Yipes.

She understood the price of her body.

Like I said earlier, once is enough. And typically physical abuse happens after emotional abuse has already started.

There must have been marks if the police bothered to arrest him. Keep in mind comments like yours are why domestic violence is not taken seriously and people die.

All poor people are now legally obligated to survive solely on ideas and bootstraps.