every time a mass murderer is some white dude, people always rationalize it by saying they were mentally ill, we all know that

some people have seen that as an obvious issue of not having adequate mental health care in this country, which is COMPLETELY true and definitely is an issue

but I don’t think it’s about mental health with these killer white men, and I think it’s unfair to cast mentally ill people as the ones who are going to go on violent rampages

when something scary happens, people want to rationalize and label it in order to make it comprehensible

“mentally ill” is just another label that puts peoples’ minds at ease, that there is a cause to mass shootings, that it is because someone is “crazy”

but that puts the responsibility out of their hands, because they can’t help it if someone is “crazy”

if a mass murderer was black, nobody would label him mentally ill because they wouldnt feel the need to. society is racist enough to feel that “black” is reason enough for someone to be a mass murderer, because, y'know, he’s a violent thievin’ thug and that’s just what they are

society operates on these assumptions that are completely untrue. how many white men have to go on violent rampages before black men are acquitted of the stereotype that they are the violent ones?

how many innocent people must be murdered by white men before we realize that mental health isn’t the real issue in this surge of violence?

white men today are MAD. not mad like Hamlet’s mental madness, but mad like violent anger. and they’ve grown up in a society that fetishizes violence. and they have entitlement complexes that can be lethal when he goes that far, but are always hurtful and hateful towards women and POC.

yes, our society is progressing to be more equal and diverse, though slowly. yes, white men’s supremacy is slipping away, though at a glacial pace (which is probably a bad metaphor these days considering how quickly our icecaps are melting). but no, we should not coddle them and comfort them because things aren’t as good for them as they were fifty years ago. they need to fucking deal with it and stop these fucking tantrums that end in carnage.