I've seen so many news outlets dance around the fact that this trans person was a student at the Christian school and then targeted that school due to a hatred of Christianity. This is a "hate crime".
The fact the shooter was trans is a valid issue to look at, particularly given the mental health issues. Funny that so many want to blame shootings on political orientation, or skin color, or socio-economic factors, or feelings, or a host of other things, but then want what is quite likely a major element to be ignored because it makes one particular group look bad is unacceptable.
There is an element in the story--the general story about the course of events in this society, I mean, not this particular incident only--that most people are almost certainly not thinking of.
Any minority or "special interest" group, etc. can be made to feel victimized if influential voices in society tell those people that they are victims. Some groups come immediately to mind, but it's not confined to them. Some Roman Catholics, for one example, think and have been told that their church is the target of "non-Catholics" in vague some manner, yet that church is hardly a minority. It's the single largest and most influential church in the country.
What's missing is the explanation for the illogical victimizing that's being pushed on society from many different angles and lately seems to have reached absurd levels. Most people try to understand what's happening by resorting to reason or logic, but in so doing they miss the real reason for the promotion of what genuinely are illogical changes.
The forces in society that promote the victimhood concept are really interested in fragmenting society and divorcing it from every traditional value that has held society together.
Karl Marx was not just opposed to capitalism, although most people think that was the issue. He wanted the destruction of religion, patriotism, marriage, family, and more in the process.
Today, we see
all sorts of institutions being undermined for the reason that they
are our institutions or distinctive customs and have been accepted by the people as normal. That's it. Divest the people of everything that gives them purpose and a sense of being and they become whatever the powers-that-be choose to make of them.
