Annie Tang A01_Week 5

Annie Tang

A01

Week 5

People die every day just like they are born. While in this “empire of death”, there are innocent people being killed in the hands of psychoses. In the article, “Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence”, Hamamoto talked about several classic and creepy cases which include serial murder, sniper culture, marriage material, mass murder elite and so on. Shocked by those inhuman behavior, I started to think further about common places of criminals’ and motivations of victims. I found that most of the victims fell into the category of the blacks and Asian women, which clearly showed that the race had been a decisive factor for those morbid murderers. In the section of Cannibal and Headhunter, Dahmer killed seven African Americans while in the section of Marriage Material, the big boss Reeves favored yellow flesh and turned his Asian wife into his personal sex-slave. Even though killers could hardly admit they had race driven motives, the numbers proved race to be the matter. The blacks are believed to be subhuman, and the yellow women are in the stereotype of quiet and submissive. Hence, they become the easy targets of criminals. We can relate these social issues to what we’ve been discussed in class. We have to admit that social engineering, the invisible racial hierarchy, is manipulating people, and when it comes to pathogenically creepy people, murders would often happen.

Question: What causes these people to be pathogenically creepy murderers?

Reference

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