Be it on an individual level or a political scale, specific manifestations of violence have always been beyond the reach of rational comprehension. Based on a proper ontological design underlying human existence, it might be safe to say that the phenomenon of violence for the mere sake of violence has accompanied humankind forever.
Let's remind ourselves of last-judgment day sectarians or similar chaotic associations who are driven by apocalyptic visions and are often willing to use violence solely for the sake of power, without any further justifications. Also, let's think of those lone-wolf killers who could not transcend their aggression and self-hatred and their discontent with how life presented itself to them. They magnified their desire for death and self-annihilation by extending it to as many other humans as possible. I consider the Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who took 149 passengers with him when he decided to put an end to his own life, the most recent sad, as well as evident, an instance of the described phenomenon.
We will never know precisely why Dylann Roof, who killed nine people in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, was intellectually and psychologically incapable of rising above his hatred toward black people. Were his white supremacy convictions merely an expression to cover his feelings of inferiority? Was it his desire to become "famous," to be recognized and enter history forever, albeit as a vile criminal, that made him do what he did? Psychological evaluations might give us an idea or provide an ensemble of the reasons which led him and others to his despicable deed. Yet, we can never be sure. We will never know any of this for certain simply because psychology is not an exact science, and absolute rational psychology is a myth that only faces those who are lacking profound erudition.
However, we know that the hate crime perpetrated by Dylann Roof is NOT evidencing a general hate-crime disposition of whites to commit crimes on blacks. While liberals are speedily trying to exploit the tragic Charleston incident by making us believe that a wave of hate crimes committed by whites against blacks is in full swing, it doesn't exist.
If FBI statistics are correct, although being outnumbered by whites five to one, blacks commit eight times more crimes against whites than the other way around. A white male is 40 times more likely to being assaulted by a black person than the reverse. And the number of blacks killed by other blacks vastly outnumbers the number of blacks killed by whites. Let's be clear. I have quite a few black friends, and I do not feel threatened by blacks per se. These are mere statistical data, but they tell and contradict the idea of a hate-crime wave of whites on blacks.
Are there white supremacists out there who fuel racial division? Of course, there are. But their influence pales compared to the degree to which others have given impetus to this country's racial division - for instance: The Black Lives Matter Movement, or Reverend Al Sharpton, or the Obama Justice Department under Eric Holder. Most of all, Barack Obama incited racial division in this country, which has worsened in the past few years at an alarming pace.
I am running out of superlatives to describe what's going on - i.e., the lack of judgment in large parts of the population, the disingenuousness of politicians and media, and people's overall tendency to give precedence to ideological prejudice over objectivity and impartiality.
Let's remind ourselves of last-judgment day sectarians or similar chaotic associations who are driven by apocalyptic visions and are often willing to use violence solely for the sake of power, without any further justifications. Also, let's think of those lone-wolf killers who could not transcend their aggression and self-hatred and their discontent with how life presented itself to them. They magnified their desire for death and self-annihilation by extending it to as many other humans as possible. I consider the Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, who took 149 passengers with him when he decided to put an end to his own life, the most recent sad, as well as evident, an instance of the described phenomenon.
We will never know precisely why Dylann Roof, who killed nine people in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, was intellectually and psychologically incapable of rising above his hatred toward black people. Were his white supremacy convictions merely an expression to cover his feelings of inferiority? Was it his desire to become "famous," to be recognized and enter history forever, albeit as a vile criminal, that made him do what he did? Psychological evaluations might give us an idea or provide an ensemble of the reasons which led him and others to his despicable deed. Yet, we can never be sure. We will never know any of this for certain simply because psychology is not an exact science, and absolute rational psychology is a myth that only faces those who are lacking profound erudition.
However, we know that the hate crime perpetrated by Dylann Roof is NOT evidencing a general hate-crime disposition of whites to commit crimes on blacks. While liberals are speedily trying to exploit the tragic Charleston incident by making us believe that a wave of hate crimes committed by whites against blacks is in full swing, it doesn't exist.
If FBI statistics are correct, although being outnumbered by whites five to one, blacks commit eight times more crimes against whites than the other way around. A white male is 40 times more likely to being assaulted by a black person than the reverse. And the number of blacks killed by other blacks vastly outnumbers the number of blacks killed by whites. Let's be clear. I have quite a few black friends, and I do not feel threatened by blacks per se. These are mere statistical data, but they tell and contradict the idea of a hate-crime wave of whites on blacks.
Are there white supremacists out there who fuel racial division? Of course, there are. But their influence pales compared to the degree to which others have given impetus to this country's racial division - for instance: The Black Lives Matter Movement, or Reverend Al Sharpton, or the Obama Justice Department under Eric Holder. Most of all, Barack Obama incited racial division in this country, which has worsened in the past few years at an alarming pace.
I am running out of superlatives to describe what's going on - i.e., the lack of judgment in large parts of the population, the disingenuousness of politicians and media, and people's overall tendency to give precedence to ideological prejudice over objectivity and impartiality.
