Debt, depression, dejection, despair and desperation: do white men have nothing to lose by acting out?

Charles Whitman, Richard Speck, Timothy McVeigh, Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Dylann Roof, Adam Lanza, Robert Dear, James Holmes, Eric Rudolph, Jared Loughner, Wade Michael Page, Eric Frein, Stephen Paddock, Anders Breivik, Nickolas Cruz, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, Payton Gendron and Salvadore Ramos now Ammon Bundy, David DePape, Stewart Rhodes and Anderson Lee Aldrich all are or were christians and misogynists.

All these men were victims of bullying, isolation and ostracism. All had histories of extensive teevee usage, many to video game exposure and easy access to firearms. Distrust of government and race hatred factored in most, if not all of the episodes for which they are infamous. 

The Proud Boys seem to prove the point. They are an organized, men-only extremist group, hostile to immigrants and LGBTQIA+ rights, anti-Semitic, and linked to white supremacy. Group members helped to lead the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — and they had ties with people in Trump’s orbit. Their membership has been growing dramatically. [Loss, fear and rage: Are white men rebelling against democracy?]

1) in most cases middle schools should be eliminated 

2) high schools should insist on business casual except on Fridays

3) girls and boys, women and men in public schools should be instructed in separate classrooms 

4) school boards should have an elected representative from the high school student population 

5) teachers must be union members and reflect ethnic diversity in the classroom 

6) districts should have the flexibility to experiment with curricula, including year-round sessions 

7) American Indian languages should meet the world language requirement

All the nurses I have been married to say the endocrinologist is the smartest doc on the floor. Maybe it’s because we humans manipulate our own environments and microbiomes faster than our hormone chemistry can adapt or evolve past what inoculations and toxins have done to the gene pool. There are plenty of other organisms on the planet with longer histories than Homo sapiens.

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"In 2016, 39% of 18- to 24-year-old men voted Leave, compared with 20% of women that age". Bagehot / @duncanrobinson @TheEconomist
(mentions Of Boys and Men) https://t.co/Fy5koWzXLb

— Richard V. Reeves (@RichardvReeves) November 17, 2022