Tweeting About White Male Terrorism - Prison Culture

  1. I'll be tweeting & RT today about the crisis of white masculinity today as a root cause of violence. Some may want to unfollow me now...
  2. Folks, I remind you that when Homeland Security issued a report on white (mostly male) terrorists in America, FOX News had a fit.
  3. White male terrorists who kill masses of people are made invisible by what Kathryn Russell calls the myth of the criminalblackman (one word)
  4. The myth of the criminalblackman means that those who are watched and targeted for potential violence must be black and brown people.
  5. Endemic racism, therefore, actually makes white children less safe because people like Lanza walk into schools undeterred cuz they aren't+
  6. seen as the "usual suspect." People have their guard down and they then mow down groups of unsuspecting white people.
  7. Racism is bad for white people's health and for their life expectancy.
  8. Now on to sexism. It is demonstrably the case that the "man box" as Paul Kivel calls it is killing men.
  9. Byron Hurt correctly suggest that "Until we stop telling boys that they can not cry, or show emotion, or that they have to be tough and+
  10. powerful, and in control of people and things; and until we stop sending men the message that we cannot show vulnerability, or express our+
  11. anger, sadness, disappointment, fear, and rage in healthy way, we will continue to see this kind of hypermasculine aggression, which+
  12. perplexes only those who do not make the connection between masculinity, violence, and guns". - Byron Hurt
  13. In other words, the culture of gun violence is inextricably tied to this country's pathological history with racism and sexism among other+
  14. forms of oppression. We must lift these ideas up and they must be inserted into any "national" conversations about gun violence. DONE.
  15. Folks we have empirical evidence that white men r the main perpetrators of mass shootings. Those are the facts. Don't be pissed cuz I say so
  16. I am looking forward to the panel discussions and academic conferences that will delve into the issue of white male terrorism.
  17. Will the New York Times be publishing a special 5 part series investigating the root causes of white male terrorism? If not, why not?
  18. White people, you have a crisis on your hands. Why are your sons so violent? Why are they rampaging? What is going on?
  19. Let's call on Congress to appoint a special commission to investigate the history of white male terrorism in America?
  20. Native American Genocide, World War I, World War II, Bombing Churches in Birmingham, the KKK, Aryan Nation, Oklahoma City, Columbine, Aurora
  21. Republicans Blasted Obama Administration For Warning About Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism thkpr.gs/RkalSU via @thinkprogress

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