Las Vegas Shooter "Privileged White Male Lone Wolf"

Last night, the United States experienced the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. At least 58 people are dead and over 500 more wounded. No, that’s not a typo: More than 500 people were injured in one single incident.

As tens of thousands enjoyed a music festival on the streets of Las Vegas, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada, was perched 32 floors above them in his Mandalay Bay hotel room. Paddock had 19 rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammo — supplies that are plentiful in a nation that has more guns than people. A few minutes after 10 p.m., Paddock opened fire on the unsuspecting crowd. They were sitting ducks.

No expensive wall along the Mexican border would’ve prevented this. No Muslim ban stopping immigrants and refugees from a few randomly selected countries from reaching our shores would’ve slowed this down.

Paddock, like the majority of mass shooters in this country, was a white American. And that simple fact changes absolutely everything about the way this horrible moment gets discussed in the media and the national discourse: Whiteness, somehow, protects men from being labeled terrorists.

The privilege here is that the ultimate conclusion about shootings committed by people from commonly nonwhite groups often leads to determinations about the corrosive or destructive nature of the group itself. When an individual claiming to be Muslim commits a horrible act, many on the right will tell us Islam is the problem. For centuries, when an act of violence has been committed by an African-American, racist tropes follow — and eventually, the criminalization and dehumanization of an entire ethnic group.

LAS VEGAS, NV - OCTOBER 01: (EDITORS NOTE: Image contains graphic content.) A person lies on the ground covered with blood at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after apparent gun fire was heard on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. There are reports of an active shooter around the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)

A bloodied victim lies on the ground during a mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival on Oct. 1, 2017, in Las Vegas.

Photo: David Becker/Getty Images

Privilege always stands in contrast to how others are treated, and it’s true in this case, too: White men who resort to mass violence are consistently characterized primarily as isolated “lone wolves” — in no way connected to one another — while the most problematic aspects of being white in America are given a pass that nobody else receives.

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/02/lone-wolf-white-privlege-las-ve...

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Comment by Less Prone on October 3, 2017 at 8:51pm

So he decided to let go of his relaxed retirement life, a sociable man, and to get killed in a shooting. Makes sense,... for whom.

Comment by Parrhesia on October 3, 2017 at 3:59pm

Whiteness, somehow, protects men from being labeled terrorists.

Really?

Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American terrorist who detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.

Theodore John Kaczynski (/ k ə ˈ z ɪ n s k i /; born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber, is an American mathematician, anarchist and domestic terrorist.

FBI Insists Weather Underground Bomber Bill Ayers is a Domestic Terrorist.  (Yes, Obama's friend Bill Ayers)

KKK, Arian Brotherhood and all 100 white nationalist  (supremacist)  groups per SPLC

To name a few terrorist  "white guys"

"Destroying the New World Order"

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