It's funny how this is not discussed (more). Caucasians make up only slightly more than half of the US population, but are responsible for 90% of school shootings. Had it been scary blacks or Muslims who were that overrepresented, the discourse would have been dominated by discussion on what dark thoughts inherent in the African or muslim made them so to shoot up schools. Instead the debate is on non-specified mental illness, that old boogeyman, and silliness like whether rock, sorry, Dungeons and Dragons, sorry, video games cause these poor white teens, and for some reason only the white teens, to snap and kill their classmates. Funnily enough I have never once seemed the question raised if Doom or Call of Duty could turn poor innocent impressionable Muslim boys into frothing suicide bombers, or if all those poor suicide bombers are really just mentally ill.
So I suppose this a dual thread: why are we whites so overrepresented, and why is this not discussed more.
Could it have something to do with how we, as the majority in so many ways (male, white, in most cases heterosexual, etc.), lack the feeling of brotherhood and community that many oppressed/minority groups have by virtue of them being, well, oppressed minorities? Certainly, from the outside looking in (ie. as a white person), African-Americans seem to care more about each other, even across social classes, than we Caucasians. Just look at how we label those less fortunate than us "rednecks and hillbillies and distance ourselves from them. African-Americans seem to have "embraced" the fact that many of them are less well off in rap and hip-hop and other aspects of their popular culture. It's not us middle-class African-Americans and those dirty thugs living in ghettos, it's just us, African-Americans, fighting a common cause against racism and income inequality.
As for why it's not talked about, is it simply because whites are the majority and thus have a great deal of control over the conversation?
So I suppose this a dual thread: why are we whites so overrepresented, and why is this not discussed more.
Could it have something to do with how we, as the majority in so many ways (male, white, in most cases heterosexual, etc.), lack the feeling of brotherhood and community that many oppressed/minority groups have by virtue of them being, well, oppressed minorities? Certainly, from the outside looking in (ie. as a white person), African-Americans seem to care more about each other, even across social classes, than we Caucasians. Just look at how we label those less fortunate than us "rednecks and hillbillies and distance ourselves from them. African-Americans seem to have "embraced" the fact that many of them are less well off in rap and hip-hop and other aspects of their popular culture. It's not us middle-class African-Americans and those dirty thugs living in ghettos, it's just us, African-Americans, fighting a common cause against racism and income inequality.
As for why it's not talked about, is it simply because whites are the majority and thus have a great deal of control over the conversation?
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