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jessicayogini commented on the blog post Norway Terror Reveals Disturbing Assumptions About Muslims
One question I have long wanted to see examined more is how much responsibility do groups have for those within their midst who go out on their own and kill in the name of the group.
In the US at least, the media tend to assume that actions by Islamicists are politically meaningful (ie that Islam and Islamic societies deserve at least some of the blame) but that actions by Christianists and Caucasianists are just senseless violence.
I wonder sometimes if someone like this man was simply twisted and was going to kill people anyway. Like the guy at Virginia Tech a few years back. Maybe he was going to kill anyway and only his choice of a targets was affected by anything in the broader society?
Or when a climate of contempt for certain people is created, does that set off or release psychopaths who might otherwise have managed to hold back somehow?
One thing I feel fairly sure of is that if America ever does become as humane a society as Norway, we will have a lot of these human ticking time bombs to disarm somehow. -
jessicayogini commented on the blog post Norway Terror Reveals Disturbing Assumptions About Muslims
If it were WW2 now, this guy would probably have been serving in the very small pro-Nazi Norwegian military on the Eastern Front somewhere and his murderous hatred would have been treated as normal by the Nazis and just disappeared in the vast flow of murder of those days.
