I love diversity too, but I ain't about to invite people who hate my people to settle in my country. Much less keep silent while they take over entire neighborhoods.
It’s funny how people can ignore the fact that while these people did die by members of a group whom they defend in a broad sense- that up until the day they died them and their loved ones hold that the group, and those majority of members who aren’t murderers and such- should not be hated. I like how the reply is basically: “Something bad happened to you. How can you not be an illogical ball of rage and vengeance and hate? How can you not want to see anyone like your child’s killer be made to suffer?”
I wouldn’t be upset at immigrants, or an ethnic group. I’d likely be pretty upset at the person who did it- but I also wouldn’t let that blind me to the fact that someone I love is dead. I can’t bring them back, I can try to see the world they wanted to work for become a reality though. I’d also probably be more upset at the authorities- and at people who are part of the problems that often feed into these types of crime and violence. But at the end of the day- sometimes bad shit happens.
And before anyone says “you say that now...” I’ve lost friends and loved ones to gangs, to street crimes, to foreign nationals on foreign soil and on US soil. I’ve watched one of the men I loved most in the world, scared and hurt, a strong man I’d never seen cry- with tears streaming from his eyes, making gurgles and rasps- knowing he couldn’t speak to his wife and child for the last time- couldn’t even pass a message to them. A very close friend was shot in the head- passenger in a car, major city, “nice” area- a gang initiation was the final reasoning for that. Nothing more.
I don’t blame the gun or the knife when someone I know dies. I don’t blame the family or the kin or the tribe- I blame the person who made the choice. But sometimes- what can I say? Sometimes I can see why they don’t see any other choice. Doesn’t mean I condone their actions or think they shouldn’t face justice- but we can’t be everywhere at once and if we could- that’s a scary thought. So the first step to preventing tragedies like this is to try and mitigate the root causes where able. Some people are just crazy or violent or greedy. But so many crimes are crimes of “necessity” and those we could stop before they happen.
But here are some chum buckets who are part of the problem. They want to read the title of a thesis and laugh at the irony- but isn’t that the case- how many laughing do you think actually read the thesis? Saw any of the contents beyond a short little blurb they could easily digest? If we talk extremes for the sake of simplicity- the same as I’d rather live in a free land at the expense of safety- I’d rather live in a land feee of ignorance than one fee of danger. Idiocy is by far more prevalent than immigrants and has killed far more people as of late.
Will the data change your worldview?
Or will your worldview change, or excuse, the data?