About the ongoing white supremacist terror attacks in this country (called "mass shooting incidents" by people who are ignoring reality):
It's not individual shooters each having their own mental illness.
It's a social crisis - an illness of the entire culture.
The backgrounds of these shooters are very similar: white, male, middle-class, privileged. Most of them are from rural areas or areas that still have rural mindsets and cultures. Most have published manifestos saying that they're angry about "those people" "taking over" "their" country.
That is not mental illness. It is a social crisis.
These shootings are the effect of social change on people who are privileged and reacting to seeing their privilege slipping away as society changes around them. They are enraged about black and brown people having rights, and women not being subservient to them, and their culture (which, by the way, is White American culture) tells them they have a right to be angry about it, and a right to harm people because of their anger.
The lack of empathy is socialized into them. It's not something they were born with. It's something they were trained into.
It's a social crisis, not a mental illness.
To those who are still clinging to the "mental illness" explanation: Stop trying to explain these events with an individualistic view, please. It's not helping anything when you won't look at the broader pattern and see it.
