You're right. We should do that to the point of actually addressing his race and gender and how they seem to come up a LOT when it comes to these types of crimes. You know, like... like has been said fifty times during this thread.

As the very first person to post this unrefuted comment that is totally non-ridiculous, I'm highly impressed and take back everything I said.

I honestly can't say that I'm an expert on the subject of Asperger's specifically, but I certainly think it's an interesting enough question for a talking head who is an expert to be able to discuss, at the very least, if we were being fair and all.

I get that you're really mad that privilege exists, but other than that, you're really the one who isn't saying anything.

I'm saying that it's quite possible that narratives that center the white male experience and glorify consequence-free violence from those males might at least be worth discussing, among other aspects that feed into the fact that white men do this a fair bit.

Oh, I definitely know what kind of shitshow thinking about race creates around here, but it's still worth it. Perhaps it's more worth it, even, just on the off chance that it rattles someone's cage just the right way and gets them to think more.

Adam Lanza lived in a world where he was literally told every day through countless media outlets that his life was the default experience and he was of the default type of human being. That world literally told him, countless times, that his viewpoint was more important and centered than the viewpoints of others…

We could actually analyze their whiteness and privilege instead of everything but.

So much of that discussion ended up centered around the shooter's race, to the point of relying on a lot of lazy, stupid and racist stereotypes. Like, a whole hell of a lot of that discussion, in fact. And much less of it was centered around the "Oh, but what could have happened in his poor mind, let's figure out…

I mean, I guess you could just go to town and read some of the other comments on this thread, but I'll make it easy for you and say that we probably should actually bring his race into the discussion and talk about the fact that most mass murders are done by white men, rather than simply never talking about race at…

How could people of privilege being told that they're the default people in society lead to them feeling entitled to take the lives of others?

I'm not even trying that hard. It was pretty easy! Just like, wiggling the fingers and whatnot.

Yeah, you tell that strawman who's boss!

You're right. It would be ridiculously stupid and irresponsible to have long, thoughtful articles that were all about what shaped the killer and didn't even mention his race as a factor. Thank God we don't live in that world.

Oh, would I?

A discussion of this through the lens you suggest would be wonderful and welcome.

Yep, I read the whole thing before commenting. It was more of the classic attempts when white people commit crimes of this magnitude to make the whole thing "make sense" in a way that is almost never done when a crime involves a PoC.

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.

I'm certainly not trying to exculpate America by pointing out that this is a global problem. I just think that so much human trafficking involves global structures that it's something that's best battled on that front, so I was suggesting a group that works on it from that direction.

It says that we have some deep, shitty, troubling problems with literal human slavery all over the world.