Even the serial killer exhibit at the. The serial killer is a quintessentially American. Graduate student examines America's fascination. The motivation of a serial killer is different from the. List of serial killers by country This article has. German who strangled and robbed American dancer Jean de Koven. The Radford Serial Killer database is the most complete database of serial killers in the US. A podcast from the creators of This American Life. You can listen to Serial in many places: right here on our site. The 1974 novel American Gothic by horror writer Robert Bloch was a fictionalized version of the story of. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer. Top 10 Infamous Serial Killers in America. Are Most Mass Murderers Really White? Aside from attacks on the Second Amendment, there is a certain theme that’s now repeated after every massacre committed by an unhinged individual: that most all mass killers are white. After the recent Elliot Rodger murders, for instance, Michael Moore said that he no longer had “anything to say” before immediately saying, “Nearly all of our mass shootings are by angry or disturbed white males.” Not to be one- upped in the inanity department by a mass of male whiteness, one Brittney Cooper at Salon wrote, “How many times must troubled young white men engage in these terroristic acts that make public space unsafe for everyone before we admit that white male privilege kills?” Ironically, Cooper had mentioned, parenthetically, that “as many commenters have pointed out, . And perhaps mass killing is such a Caucasian domain that perpetrating one bestows a person with honorary whiteness. Yet about this we should ask a question: Before rushing to play pin the tale on the honkey, did anyone bother to check the history of mass killings? Because I have–a comprehensive list dating from 1. Mother Jones here–and guess what? Of the last 2. 0 mass killings of that period, 9 were perpetrated by non- whites. That would be 4. 5 percent, which exceeds non- whites’ 3. Of the last 3. 0 mass killings, 1. And what if we go all the way back to 1. We then have 6. 6 mass killings in which the races of the perpetrators were known, and 2. Note here that America’s demographics have been changing, with non- whites comprising only about 2. In other words, there is no evidence whatsoever that mass killings are a characteristically white phenomenon. And there never was. In fact, the group most disproportionately represented on the Mother Jones chart is Americans of Asian descent. While only 6 percent of the population, they have been 1. This is quite interesting, too, since Americans of Asian descent have a very low crime rate in general. So in light of this, why are whites implicated in mass killings? The answer is one word: Prejudice. Note that prejudice is defined as, “1. It’s seizing upon a fashionable falsehood for the purposes of maligning an unfashionable group and advancing a fallacious agenda. The truth is that if we don’t want to be “cowards” on race, as Eric “the Red” Holder said Americans were, we do need to speak frankly about criminality in the US. But does this involve talking about “troubled young white men” who “make public space unsafe for everyone,” as Brittney Cooper suggested? Perhaps she might want to consult with Jesse Jackson, who once said that when he walked down the street, heard footsteps and thought robbery, he’d “feel relieved” if he turned around and saw a white person behind him. So, really, if we were cynical, we could think that the Coopers of the world were trying to deflect attention from black criminality by trumpeting the white- mass- killer myth. Then again, this all could just be the result of the new Common Core math. Take Elliot Rodger, for instance. He killed half his victims with a knife, but the whole focus was on guns. You could also call it situational attribution: a mixed race person is defined by his minority half when he achieves, as with our first “black” president. But when such an individual is recognized as having committed a crime, he’s suddenly white. This can only make us wonder how long it will be before Barack Obama becomes white. Anyway, the left may be upset that another one of their themes, the white- mass- killer myth, has bitten the dust. In the area of massacres as in so many other things, they can always celebrate diversity. Original Article. Topics: Black on white crime, Crime, Eric Holder, Jesse Jackson, Liberal Myths, Murder, Terrorism.
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