{"id":219985,"date":"2021-04-06T02:03:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T23:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-cant-we-talk-about-ideologys-role-when-killers-arent-white\/"},"modified":"2021-04-06T02:03:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T23:03:28","slug":"why-cant-we-talk-about-ideologys-role-when-killers-arent-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-cant-we-talk-about-ideologys-role-when-killers-arent-white\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why can\u2019t we talk about ideology\u2019s role when killers aren\u2019t white?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Why can\u2019t we talk about ideology\u2019s role when killers aren\u2019t white?<\/strong>”
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When mental illness leads unstable individuals to commit crimes, it\u2019s best to avoid drawing quick political conclusions about their motives. Yet that didn\u2019t stop the media<\/a> from speculating feverishly about \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d when a man went on a shooting rampage in Atlanta last month that left eight people dead, including six Asian women.<\/p>\n

Numerous commentators and at least two Democratic senators, Tammy Duckworth and Raphael Warnock, immediately jumped to the conclusion that he was motivated by race hatred. With race being almost the sole obsession of our political class, the search for a motive often begins and ends with that catch-all explanation \u2014 that is, so long as the racial dynamics fit the intersectional narratives of the cultural left.<\/p>\n

In fact, mental illness is often key to understanding mass shootings, but far too often the discussion veers off into attempts to blame them exclusively<\/em> on ideology, especially far-right ideology. The result is an impoverished national conversation \u2014 and an inability to understand how extremist ideology can catastrophically unhinge men and women who are already half-unhinged.<\/p>\n

That seems to have been what occurred last week when another disturbed individual attacked the US Capitol. Twenty-five-year-old Noah Green drove his car into two officers of the Capitol Police, killing one and injuring another, before getting out and brandishing a knife; cops then fatally shot him.<\/p>\n

The more we learn about Green, a once-promising former college football player and aspiring financial adviser, the more it seems that his actions flowed from a volatile admixture of severe mental illness and toxic indoctrination.<\/p>\n

Green reportedly believed that the CIA was controlling his mind. He blamed his former football teammates for drugging him. He suffered hallucinations and illnesses related to drug use. His social-media posts spoke of mysterious home invasions and unauthorized hospital operations. His writings bespeak a tortured mind desperately in need of help.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s also impossible to ignore the fact that in recent years, Green had fallen under the spell of Louis Farrakhan. Indeed, just hours before he drove his car into those Capitol cops, he was posting links to the Nation of Islam leader\u2019s maniacal speeches and writings (\u201cThe US government is the No. 1 enemy of black people!\u201d).<\/p>\n

Though Green\u2019s problems didn\u2019t begin with a belief that Farrakhan was \u201cJesus, the Messiah,\u201d the Nation of Islam\u2019s paranoiac, anti-white and anti-Semitic ideology may have tipped him into taking violent action.<\/p>\n

A lack of corroborating evidence didn\u2019t stop the elite blue-check class from attributing the Atlanta killings to white supremacy. Yet those same talking heads app<\/a>ear to be completely uninterested in whether Farrakhan\u2019s bigotry may have been a factor in Green\u2019s motivations.<\/p>\n

True, the presence of Farrakhan\u2019s hateful ideology in his life shouldn\u2019t lead us to brush aside Green\u2019s illness. But we also shouldn\u2019t quickly consign to the memory-hole the killer\u2019s interest in the Nation of Islam.<\/p>\n

Our media betters wouldn\u2019t hesitate to focus exclusively on white racist groups if Green had been one of their adherents. But the Nation of Islam receives different treatment.<\/p>\n

The New York Times, for example, almost instantly cast doubt on any links between Farrakhan\u2019s hate and violence. The paper quoted an \u201cexpert\u201d who dismissed the connection, noting that the Nation of Islam has a lower \u201cbody count\u201d than white racists.<\/p>\n

The problem here isn\u2019t just that society still doesn\u2019t prioritize helping the mentally ill. Our mainstream media and pop culture continue to give a pass to Farrakhan, a man with a following of hundreds of thousands. With statistics showing that most hate crimes against Jews and Asians are committed by African Americans, it\u2019s time to start treating his widespread influence as a serious problem.<\/p>\n

Yet the Grammy telecast recently featured the Farrakhan supporter and Black Lives Matter advocate Tamika Mallory, and mainstream political figures like former President Bill Clinton have no problem sharing a stage with the Farrakhan.<\/p>\n

As the probe proceeds, it may well turn out that Farrakhan\u2019s hate triggered Green\u2019s final descent into violent madness. The old bigot doesn\u2019t deserve the free pass he still receives from a media establishment that believes racism is worth discussing only when it comes from one direction.<\/p>\n

Jonathan S.\u00a0Tobin\u00a0is editor in chief of JNS.org.<\/em><\/p>\n

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