Good find! But look! some of the experts quoted in this article seem to handwave away the white supremacy. This shooter, who was Native American, hung out on racial-purity messageboards and described himself as a nazi! How can the nazism be, per Viollis in the article, "a collateral issue"?
yeah, i was looking through a bunch of articles, splc did a more accurate framing i think www.splcenter.org/resources/re...
they kinda also did some "cya" in that writing
"It could have been the goth music, too!" I mean those little snippets from Pit magazine, short as they were, were gross and a little chilling! But yeah, excellent digging! I don't think this has changed my mind about the *consensus* view of school shooters, though; would you say it has for you?
what i've noticed, in many of the narratives (immediate aftermath vs deep dives later), be it highland park, colorado springs, pulse nightclub, initial diagnosis was "normal" family dynamics but afterwards revealed there were so much family dysfunction! guns in those dysfunctional systems is deadly
(highland park native, ahoy!) This kind of violence is so... (forgive me for using this word) "spectacular", that is to say so explosive, so intended to be witnessed as a media event, so outside the bounds of "ordinary" gun violence, that its causes can only ever be multi-factor.
But LORD ISN'T IT CURIOUS how family dysfunction, virulent misogyny, and white supremacy always seem to tag along somewhere in the mix