Tim Wise on Facebook re most recent school shooting [View all]

https://www.facebook.com/timjacobwise/?hc_ref=ARRWLtR3gn8kmgGP7au_LUcRXC6AvZP6qtFEA17IEshHWyJOOC876AelLvWmiwjGFnM&fref=nf

Another mass shooting. And please note the community and school profile. Like most mass shootings the school is 85% white and middle to upper middle class. Let’s think this through shall we?...

If these things were happening in mostly black and brown and poor spaces everyone would have a theory. Conservatives would blame “cultural pathology” and liberals would point to structural conditions....

...but when they happen in places like this it’s as if the demographic and cultural issues become irrelevant. Suddenly we revert to individual pathology explanations...like mental illness or a response to bullying or whatever. Because we can’t fathom cultural pathology in white affluent communities

...because after all, folks ran to these places to get away from the “bad people” (irony)...but by ignoring the ubiquitous whiteness and relatively well-off status of these shooters, time and time again (and seriously I first wrote about this in 1998) white folks endanger themselves...