Radicalisation that's capable of producing this degree of brutality doesn't crop up overnight, which means that the murderer was radicalised through his teens and potentially earlier. And yet the handwave logic of Boys Will Be Boys so often says those years don't really count -
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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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