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Male Grievance Culture
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the perpetrators of the recent shootings in Ohio and Texas fit into a consistent storyline: white men with access to guns committing violence in the name of real or perceived grievances.
Eric Madfis is a Criminal Justice professor at the University of Washington Tacoma who has studied the intersection of white entitlement, middle-class instability and heterosexual masculinity. He says that the two men suspected of carrying out the recent shootings in El Paso and Dayton appear to have quite different political ideologies but, as with other shooters, seem to be highly motivated by what he calls white male grievance culture, a way of thinking that can originate from circumstances both real and imagined. “Mass murderers tend to be people who have failed throughout their lives people who didn’t get to date as many people as they wanted or the people that they wanted to,”
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