True. Charles L Cotton posted a vile comment on a message board blaming Clementa Pinckney for the deaths at Emanuel AME.

Some other site, I don’t remember which, linked to that forum a day or so after the murders. I managed to read about four comments before I had to leave the site. The cackling glee at the deaths of nine people was horrifying.

As a rule, I don’t wish harm on people, but at that moment I came perilously close to breaking that rule.

–alopecia

Apparently an NRA board member has been saying that, because Rev. Pinckney voted against concealed carry as a legislator, he is in part responsible for the deaths of his parishioners. I can’t even think of words to communicate my disgust with that shit.

I would imagine prosecutors would want some specific connection between Clementa Pinckney’s legislative actions and Dylann Roof’s motives before they’d consider that angle.

It seems unlikely Roof would have acted any differently had someone else been running Bible study at Emanuel AME that night.

–alopecia

What Erick ibn Erick considers “the conversation about mental health” (there’s only one possible conversation on the subject?) and what normal people would consider “the conversation about mental health” are two very different things.

–alopecia

BS. We are CONSTANTLY having an honest conversation about mental health.

He’s barking.

–alopecia

He’s projecting.

As a nation, when these things happen, we never have the conversation about real evil. We also never have the conversation about mental health. For that matter, we don’t have honest conversations about why some kid in Minnesota or Alabama would want to go join ISIS and kill their fellow citizens or why some kid would want to join neo-nazis or a gang.

Instead, we descend into partisan conversations where everything is political and neither side can concede or acknowledge the other’s points. Everyone and everything gets blamed while ignoring the actual person who killed.

I realize now why that is. I realize why we will never have the conversation we should have.

A society that looks at a 65 year old male Olympian and, with a straight face, declares him a her and “a new normal” cannot have a conversation about mental health or evil because that society no longer distinguishes normal from crazy and evil from good. Our American society has a mental illness — overwhelming narcissism and delusion — and so cannot recognize what crazy or evil looks like.

He is quite wrong. We can easily recognize what crazy and evil look like. We see those things clearly every time Erick ibn Erick shares his brain droppings with the world.

–alopecia