Quote: (05-29-2014 08:09 AM)zanetti Wrote:
It is amazing that that fat black woman from the O'Reilly clip, if she really said those things, is allowed to teach at a university.
I disagree with O'Reilly when he says that race has nothing to do with (mass) murder. His comments about Norway and that guy in Norway killing 77 people a couple of years back are wrong. That was all about race/religion/immigration.
I try to dispute this type of rationalization for murder, which I see as mislabeling of someone with a severe personality disorder.
Mass murder
sometimes is rationalized with racial justification, but more importantly is perpetrated by what I consider, by definition, to be sick personalities.
I have published research on violence, and am a licensed health care practitioner who has worked extensively with probably thousands of violent people.
This is really the correct mental health term in my opinion when we talk about someone who can see physical reality correctly ( The walls are white, the table is black etc.) but has such an inflated sense of entitlement or importance that they self-justify brutality.
Both Brevik and the guy who recently went on a murder spree are, technically speaking, personality disordered.
Someone like Bill Reilly is just cranky, nowhere near the murdering nuts who get in the papers. I get the impression if someone were murdering others for some stupid abstract reason, he would be pretty upset about it. I've seen him correct far-right paranoid guests when they were clearly straying past the limits of realism.
He has a master's from O'Reilly Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; he received a master of public administration degree in 1996.
So he actually is one of the few people who has studied about government who rants about it.