Billo_Really
Litre of the Band
The problem with a lot of "white, right, gun guys",
is they feel they are entitled to privilege and
entitled to punish anyone who threatens to take it away.
is they feel they are entitled to privilege and
entitled to punish anyone who threatens to take it away.
The "aggreived" part, is when they are stripped of that sense of privilege; the "entitlement" part is when they try to get it back.
This is a "gender-based" emotion and that gender is "white male masculinity".Is the psychic and emotional pain of realizing that white unearned privilege is threatened (even marginally) by the browning of America, upward mobility for women, gay rights, and the further dismantlement of American Apartheid (at least symbolically among elites and in the mass media) that deep a cut to White Masculinity, one which results in mass murder? How can White Men be so politically and economically strong as a group, but simultaneously so weak at the same time?
Maybe the solution is to start profiling conservative white men from the Bible Belt?...is "a gendered emotion, a fusion of that humiliating loss of manhood and the moral obligation and entitlement to get it back. And its gender is masculine."
The symptoms of the problem, can be found in how pissed off some get when even dare to raise this issue, but its the same reaction average German's had when first told of their governments involvement of the Holocaust and the same reaction many American's have when told our government is guilty of war crimes, but it doesn't change the fact that we have a sickness in this society that needs to be addressed.White Masculinity, like Whiteness, imagines itself as normal, innocent, and benign. The very premise that the intersection of those identities could result in socially maladaptive and violent behavior which is evil, and yes I use that term intentionally, is rejected by those deeply invested in a particularly conservative and reactionary type of White Masculinity, as something impossible. To even introduce such an idea is anathema to their universe. The language is verboten. The Other is suspect until proven otherwise; "real Americans" as "good people" are to be judged by precisely the opposite premise.
This also explains the republican party meltdown (in recent times) over the results of the elections.
This is one story you can't blame the muslims for!