dichotomy interrupted

oh your god, people.  is this really that difficult?

dipshit killed those three kids for parking in his spot, and the thing that anti-theism did was give him a context to dehumanize them far enough for the fucking coward to carry it out.

actually, that's only why he killed the first one.  he killed the other two because he was compelled by his own completionism... because he is a weakling.  once the first one was dead, his brain needed to complete the scenario that he'd (obviously) played out repeatedly in fantasy.

a fantasy he'd constructed out of the trappings of anti-theism.  not because they were muslim, but because they kept parking in his spot.  if it wasn't religion, it would have been some other damn thing. if those three kids had been white girls, we'd be talking about how he's an anti-feminist and gawking at the links to "a voice for men" and girl writes what videos on his facebook page. if they'd been three white dudes, we'd all be putting ourselves through talking about elliott roger again.  it didn't start with the kids being muslims.  it started years ago when the village idiot decided to go captain dickhead on his neighbors.  the fact that the ones he ended up shooting were muslims is a result of hicks having a context from which to dehumanize them.

do i blame anti-theism?  no.  but i would suggest (... politely) that anti-theists take stock of what about the collective balance of their output might be getting assembled in such a way that it provides scaffolding for this magnitude of sociopathy.  i make this suggestion the same way i make the suggestion to the catholic church that letting priests be married men might cut down on the kiddyfiddlers and muslims might want to ask that their imams not make people angry on purpose.  just saying.  being anti-stuff doesn't have a good track record, organizationally speaking.  the problem with being anti-stuff is that line between "anti-anything" and "anti-everything" is too thin for the human eye to notice when it's crossed... at least, not in time to make any damn difference.

you know who i personally blame?  whoever gave him the gun.  i have a reason to be acquainted with the type of personality that goes into a "blind rage" when they're angry.  if a gun had been present in my psych 101 class at Hard Knocks U, the vector for that sudden realization you just had about my personal history would not be me.  whoever put that gun into craig hicks' hands needs to be knuckleslapped.

and, postscript, there isn't going to be any resolution for any of us on this, just so you know.  if i'm prognosticating, i'm going to guess there won't even be a trial.  that chickenshit will take whatever deal he's offered to keep his ass out of federal prison.  they'll bust the charge down from murder to whatever they're allowed to keep him in regional for (probably manslaughter) and he'll plead guilty to that.  the judge will sentence him to 99 consecutive life sentences and he'll spend the rest of his life in Podunk County Prison getting federally funded college degrees and visits from his mom every sunday.  the best we can hope for is that he accidentally invents something useful on the company dime before he croaks.