US mass killers show no coherent ideological pattern to individual motivations. One thinks he's "Joker"; another thinks he's waging "Jihad".
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Replying to @zeynep
How notoriety motivates mass killers. Don't put their faces, names and manifestos on loop. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html …pic.twitter.com/pRVUfmQrow
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Replying to @zeynep
US-style mass shootings are a chronic problem; intense focus on individualizing each incident helps further the cycle by inspiring copycats.
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Replying to @zeynep
This is so sad. We've given up on solutions but our wrong-headed response may well further this horrible cycle.pic.twitter.com/S7VYhyx8AF
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Replying to @zeynep
Don't put the face, name & manifestos of murderers on loop. Do focus on US mass-shooting chronic problem, join a Pride march, donate blood.
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Replying to @zeynep
I guess, today, for me, the pb with this is it seems to imply his selection of my community secondary. 1/2
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Replying to @PaleoGould @zeynep
it's hard to be asked to erase that specificity 2/2
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Replying to @PaleoGould
You can talk about role of homophobia in motivating such killers without publicizing it on his terms, i.e. manifesto etc.
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Replying to @zeynep
Admire your brilliance. Yet so dangerous, self-disarming, to frame this as a flavor of "troubled young man." It's a flavor of war.
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Replying to @ronmartinez @zeynep
The evidence, and the casualties, are piling up as public intellectuals contort themselves to avoid the obvious. Truly puzzling.
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It's not war. It's horrible and troubling and the ideologies matter. But Syria is war. This is awful something else.
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