The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages of hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store.

The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages of hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store.

A white gunman fatally shot three Black people in hate-motivated shooting at a Dollar General retailer in Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon, Sheriff T.K. Waters said.

“This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people,” the sheriff said at a news conference. “He wanted to kill n------.”

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    573·
    1 year ago

    “This was, quite frankly, a maniac who decided he wanted to take lives,”

    Copycat shooter with a manifesto, armed with the usual kit: A plate carrier, an AR-15, and a Glock.

    While I can see this is a racially motivated shooting, I think this pattern indicates some deeper… suicidal, martyrdom ideology. The intent includes the suicide. It’s suicidally motivated, too. These plans include the repetitive messaging of a newsfeed marching down the list of mass shootings by scared whitr supremacists. Racial killing, suicide, manifesto, and the date makes it a copycat killing. Is he truly a maniac, if so many are falling into this same set of cowardly cries for help?

    I feel no sympathy for the dead shooter. But I stare into the abyss, feeling I must empathize with the scared white supremacist who does this next.

    Stochastic Terrorism (wiki)

    • clobubba@kbin.social
      462·
      1 year ago

      Killing three random dudes in a Dollar General isn’t going to “save the white race”. This guy’s plan is either evidence he was so dumb we’re better off without him in the gene pool, or was intended to kick-start the race war they want so badly. I refuse to feel sorry for him in either case. I’m not taking the high road. Fuck this guy.

      • abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world
        21·
        1 year ago

        Yeah my best guess here is the possibility of someone being suicidal anyway and deciding to commit a hate crime to go out as some sort of half-assed martyr, or as some idiot that spent too long on the message boards and decided to “defend America” by committing a hate crime. Either way, an idiot that has signed a receipt for “I won’t be missed”

    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
      226·
      1 year ago

      I must empathize with the scared white supremacist who does this next.

      Really?! What the fuck?

      Conservatives do not empathize with you. They see empathy as a weakness to exploit. Do not empathize with them unless you’d like to become their next victim.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        102·
        1 year ago

        You can empathize with someone without being exploited by them. I empathize with prisoners suffering in solitary confinement because I consider it inhumane. That doesn’t mean I’m going to allow myself to be attacked by a murderous psychopath without defending myself.

      • RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works
        81·
        1 year ago

        Empathy is not agreement or defense, it’s understanding. Refusing to empathize is refusing to find a solution. Stop being part of the problem.

        • Fades@lemmy.world
          21·
          1 year ago

          I would say refusing to empathize is more akin to refusing to try and understand the person and their plight. That in turn can lead to missing potential solutions that work for all or most parties

          Semantics of course

      • Soulg@lemmy.world
        34·
        1 year ago

        The only possible way to try to prevent it is to try and talk them down before hand.

        I mean, aside from the obvious gun legislation that won’t happen

    • Pratai@lemmy.ca
      131·
      1 year ago

      Fuck em. Let them all suicide their way out. As long as they stop taking innocent people with them, they can die in agony in a ditch as far as I’m concerned. The time for sympathy is over.

      • lennybird@lemmy.world
        101·
        1 year ago

        You’re probably not wrong. Conservatives have been shown to have a larger amygdala, yielding a greater reaction to fear and disgust.

      • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
        31·
        1 year ago

        Not sure why the downvotes, I think you’re right, fear is at the source of this muderous behaviour. This is the meaning carried by the “phobia” in “negrophobia”, " homophobia", etc. These people feel their very existence is threatened by their victims : they’ve been indoctrinated into thinking their “race” or “culture” are driven to extinction by other people. So yes, it’s absolutely fear.

        • theodewere@kbin.social
          41·
          1 year ago

          more to the point maybe, it’s useless to try to find a coherent idea inside their heads, with the idea of treating it, or heading it off in others or something… they consume a steady diet of fear inducing media, and look to their gun as the only help… when they snap, they’re just looking for the most convenient excuse to use the firearm finally…

          it isn’t about anyone’s “race” (that idea never makes sense anyway), so much as someone is telling him appearance or culture is a fear vector for him (i.e. people who look and think differently hate HIM)… he’s listening for any reason to be afraid, it really doesn’t matter…

          in fact, trying to assign the problem to his race or a racial idea is just doing the same in reverse… trying to find a reason to fear someone and create a fear vector in people’s minds…

          and just to reiterate because it’s so important: it is USELESS to try to find a coherent idea of any kind in those heads