Week 5 Bailey Wang

Bailey Wang

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Week 5

“Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence” by Darrell Hamamoto provides the correlation between mass murder in sociality and murder in war areas. Majority of the time, when the economy drops and the income is low, middle class white males are the culprit for mass murder. Since the government supports non-white minorities during war periods, many middle-class white males often become enraged and attack civilization. Another case is that the school shootings and war in Southeast Asia draws parallels each other in that both the killer and the invasion of the US army killed innocent bystanders. The 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers continues the bloodshed by provoking America into anti-terrorism. After serving the military in Iraq, McVeight was rejected and went on a killing spree. The FBI had to step in and were criticized for their involvement.

Many of these cases involve different races, specifically non-white, as the victims within the US and outside of the US. However, it could be perceived as the US scapegoating another race to promote their own agenda. The data also provides that the most likely killer would be a white male engineering sociality to fear the white males.

Is the government socially engineering the public to fear certain races and scapegoat others?

Hamamoto, D. Y. (2003). Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence. In Masters of War: Militarism and Blowback in the Era of American Empire (pp. 277-291). New York, NY: New York: Routledge.

Viglione, Steve. “9 Grim Facts About Serial Killers You Wish You Never Knew.” Life Analytics, 19 Dec. 2013, strategyandanalytics.com/9-facts-serial-killers-wish-never-knew/.