... a white man's problem?
Not surprisingly, no.
Urban myth.
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-mass-white-problem.html#jCp
Excerpts:
"According to the 2016 US census, 61.3% of Americans were "white alone, not Hispanic or Latino". The proportion of white mass shooters is therefore almost exactly what we would expect it to be if whites and non-whites committed mass shootings at the same rate. Indeed it is (trivially) lower."
...
"The analogy to race and mass shootings should be clear. The shootings are the symptom and, in the eyes of some, whiteness is the disease that causes it. There is no actual correlation between being white and being a mass shooter in the US, but because whiteness is common we see many examples where the symptom and the disease go together. As a result, mass shootings are seen as linked to whiteness.
In this case, the diagnosis is incorrect. The problem is not white men, but men. So, not race, but gender. Only two of the 91 mass shootings were perpetrated by women."
So we ban testosterone? Or do we finally recognize that we need to hold individuals responsible for their own crimes and judge one another by the content of our character instead of the color of our skin?
"Our college exists not so much to make men farmers as to make farmers men." KSAC President George T. Fairchild (1879–1897)
Not surprisingly, no.
Urban myth.
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-mass-white-problem.html#jCp
Excerpts:
"According to the 2016 US census, 61.3% of Americans were "white alone, not Hispanic or Latino". The proportion of white mass shooters is therefore almost exactly what we would expect it to be if whites and non-whites committed mass shootings at the same rate. Indeed it is (trivially) lower."
...
"The analogy to race and mass shootings should be clear. The shootings are the symptom and, in the eyes of some, whiteness is the disease that causes it. There is no actual correlation between being white and being a mass shooter in the US, but because whiteness is common we see many examples where the symptom and the disease go together. As a result, mass shootings are seen as linked to whiteness.
In this case, the diagnosis is incorrect. The problem is not white men, but men. So, not race, but gender. Only two of the 91 mass shootings were perpetrated by women."
So we ban testosterone? Or do we finally recognize that we need to hold individuals responsible for their own crimes and judge one another by the content of our character instead of the color of our skin?
"Our college exists not so much to make men farmers as to make farmers men." KSAC President George T. Fairchild (1879–1897)
