@dragonlordfreya.bsky.social: There are already people on nextdoor blaming mental illness, instead of, you know, the massive amount of anti-Palestinian hate in the news

Statement from President Joe Biden on the brutal murder of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a Palestinian-American boy, in Illinois

There are already people on nextdoor blaming mental illness, instead of, you know, the massive amount of anti-Palestinian hate in the news

Both can be at play. But insisting he was mentally ill always seems to be used in aid of erasing the racism.

Especially when early reports are that all the propaganda is what incited this. Mentally illness only exasperated the harmful effects of that propaganda

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