Two recent school shootings are highlighting what extremism researchers see as a growing — and poorly understood — trend among young people who embrace mass violence.
The US as a whole has gotten more extreme (we just elected a guy that praised Hitler), but we also have kids born into a world where school shootings are a common occurrence. Kids are surrounded by adults that hate people that don’t fit the “norm”, that fear everything, and then they see violence everywhere.
I mean we just re-elected a guy that used violence in an effort to overthrow the government, and not only did we not punish him, we gave him that highest position in our government. He then freed the people that carried out his orders.
The Right has also embraced the Proud Boys and other domestic terrorist organizations. The President met with a former Grand Wizard of the KKK, and told people that Nazi’s marching with tiki torches chanting “Jews will not replace us” were “some very fine people”.
Adults: destroy world for next generation
Children: become nihilists
Adults: surprised_pikachu.jpg
Fun fact, the Pikachu face is an official Lemmy emoji. If you’re on desktop UI type colon (:) and you’ll see it down the list that appears. I forget its keyword, though, it’s something b like :surprised_pikachu:
Don’t shoot children, shoot CEOs
You have been permanently banned from Reddit.
My take away: America has had school shootings for long enough to have statistical analysis applied.
Columbine was almost 26 years ago. So the only people who haven’t had the experience of being in school during the risk of shootings are in their late 40s and older.
Everyone forgets Jonesboro that happened a year earlier.
School violence happened before Columbine, too. Sadly.
This was ten years before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton_schoolyard_shooting
This was in 1966. Sure, not K-12, but…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting
This was apparently explosives, but…even so. 1927.
Wow, I stand corrected, thanks for the sad history
Results were politically wrong so they dismissed them :)
My take away before mass shooters there were spree killers, it is the same mental disorder in a new generation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States_(before_2000)
in 1764:
Enoch Brown school massacre: Four Lenape Native Americans entered the school and shot teacher Enoch Brown. Brown was then scalped, while ten students were beaten to death with clubs and also scalped. This marks the first instance of a school shooting in the Colonial States and in North America.
This is both very true and very sad!
At some point we have to consider if our culture and society isn’t just sick, and these children are not products of online trends, but more the inflamed pustules of the feverish patient.
The vogons were right
“Young people” are less cynical and have a harder time surviving in a society with many arbitrary taboos, censorship, and other injustices.
