The murderer is a white man, aged 21. And that age keeps sticking in my head, because 21 when we generally agree that someone is irrevocably An Adult - and yet it's far too common for white men to arrive at adulthood already radicalised into violence and bigotry.
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You talk about the hard stuff early in large part so that *talking about it at all* is as normal as discussing math homework: so that you can *keep* talking about it, in more and more detail, the older your kid gets. THAT is how you combat radicalisation.
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The point being, fellow white people: way too many of us grew up in social cultures where race wasn't discussed, or where we were taught colour-blindness, or given pat speeches about "the melting pot," and it's other groups that suffer when our own bigoted chickens come roosting.
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It's a cycle that WE need to break, and that starts with talking to our kids about race, gender, culture - about all the stuff we've been raised to think is Too Hard and shouldn't they be older first, it doesn't really apply to nice folk like us anyway - while they're still kids.
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Because otherwise, this is the result: Dylan Roof, Brock Turner, Kyle Rittenhouse and now this murderous racist asshole. All young white men barely into adulthood; all radicalised before then. Culturally, this is our issue. Let's fucking fix it already.
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