Moggy wrote:Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Squinty wrote:I see from Neogaf that the hate and scapegoating brigade have already started their crusade against 'moslims'.
People have no strawberry floating shame.
On the other side of the coin, I have Muslims on Facebook who are promoting the idea that the murderer was trained by our government and sent on this rampage in order to distract us from 'something'.
The one thing that unites all of humanity is every single culture and group has a large proportion of fuckwits.
People don't like the idea that a random nobody can just kill innocent people or shape world events. It is a lot more comforting if you tell yourself a government or some evil mastermind is behind it.
Or in this case, it is due to the fact he is Muslim (I only heard he was Asian) etc. So as long as you ship out all the Muslims, you will be safe.
The truth is of course that you will never be safe, and anyone could be that random killer. But people don't like to think that. I think it is inherit to human nature, or at least culture.
So I wouldn't say they were fuckwits, just misguided.
I'm sure you have had similar thoughts, even if you don't want to admit it "he was just depressed or mentally ill" "he was just a psychopath" "I would definitely recognize a psychopath" etc etc. No Moggy, just pray murder statistics are on your side.