#cultureofviolence — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: CW - Talk of Subway Knife Attack
So, what this tells me is that the problem is a culture of violence, not just guns. Sure, guns, especially automatic weapons, allow the user to kill many people at once. Personally, I think we should ban all automatic weapons for domestic and war-time use, but that's just me (and we should end wars period, but that would mean dismantling capitalism and inequality).
Man Slashes 3 With Machete at Grand Central and Is Killed by Officer
The victims, two older men and an older woman, were expected to survive after the subway platform attacks. The assailant was shot after he repeatedly refused to drop his weapon, the police said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/nyregion/stabbing-nypd-shooting-grand-central.html
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Violence is Deeply Rooted in American Culture: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux
By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout, January 17, 2013
"There is little doubt that the role of the #NRA is instrumental in the violence haunting American culture, or that gun control is important, but it is only one factor in the culture of symbolic and institutional violence that has such a powerful grip on the everyday cultural apparatuses and workings of American society. The issue of violence in America goes far beyond the issue of gun control. When gun control is the focus — instead of a broader consideration of violence — it can actually serve to deflect the most important questions that need to be raised. The grave reality is that violence saturates almost every aspect of North American culture. Domestically, violence weaves through the cultural and social landscape like a highly charged forest fire burning everything in its path. Popular culture, extending from Hollywood films and sports thuggery, to video games, embraces the spectacle of violence as the primary medium of entertainment. The real issue here is the existence of a pedagogy of violence that actually makes the power of deadly violence attractive. Representations of violence dominate the media and often parade before viewers less as an object of critique than as a for-profit spectacle, just as the language of violence and punishment now shapes the U.S. culture — with various registers of violence now informing school zero-tolerance policies, a bulging prison-industrial complex, and the growing militarization of everyday life. There is also the fact that as neoliberalism and its culture of cruelty weaves its way through the culture it makes the work place, schools, and other public spheres sites of rage, anger, humiliation, and misery, creating the foundation for blind rebellion against what might be termed intolerable conditions. Accepting the logic of radical individual responsibility, too many Americans blame themselves for being unemployed, homeless, and isolated and end up perceiving their misery as an individual failing and hence are vulnerable to forms of existential depression and collective rage. We have seen such violence among students reacting to bullying and among postal workers responding to intolerable work conditions. There is no one cause of violence, but a series of a number of causes that range from the war on drugs and the militarization of police departments to mass incarcerations in prisons to the return from brutal wars of many trained killers suffering with #PTSD. All of these factors combine in an explosive mix to create an dangerous culture of violence and cruelty and as Jeff Sparrow points out a 'willingness of ordinary people to commit unthinkable atrocities.'"
https://truthout.org/articles/violence-is-deeply-rooted-in-american-culture-interview-with-henry-a-giroux/
#CultureOfViolence #Militarism #MilitaryExtremism #USMilitary -
Violence is Deeply Rooted in American Culture: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux
By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout, January 17, 2013
"There is little doubt that the role of the #NRA is instrumental in the violence haunting American culture, or that gun control is important, but it is only one factor in the culture of symbolic and institutional violence that has such a powerful grip on the everyday cultural apparatuses and workings of American society. The issue of violence in America goes far beyond the issue of gun control. When gun control is the focus — instead of a broader consideration of violence — it can actually serve to deflect the most important questions that need to be raised. The grave reality is that violence saturates almost every aspect of North American culture. Domestically, violence weaves through the cultural and social landscape like a highly charged forest fire burning everything in its path. Popular culture, extending from Hollywood films and sports thuggery, to video games, embraces the spectacle of violence as the primary medium of entertainment. The real issue here is the existence of a pedagogy of violence that actually makes the power of deadly violence attractive. Representations of violence dominate the media and often parade before viewers less as an object of critique than as a for-profit spectacle, just as the language of violence and punishment now shapes the U.S. culture — with various registers of violence now informing school zero-tolerance policies, a bulging prison-industrial complex, and the growing militarization of everyday life. There is also the fact that as neoliberalism and its culture of cruelty weaves its way through the culture it makes the work place, schools, and other public spheres sites of rage, anger, humiliation, and misery, creating the foundation for blind rebellion against what might be termed intolerable conditions. Accepting the logic of radical individual responsibility, too many Americans blame themselves for being unemployed, homeless, and isolated and end up perceiving their misery as an individual failing and hence are vulnerable to forms of existential depression and collective rage. We have seen such violence among students reacting to bullying and among postal workers responding to intolerable work conditions. There is no one cause of violence, but a series of a number of causes that range from the war on drugs and the militarization of police departments to mass incarcerations in prisons to the return from brutal wars of many trained killers suffering with #PTSD. All of these factors combine in an explosive mix to create an dangerous culture of violence and cruelty and as Jeff Sparrow points out a 'willingness of ordinary people to commit unthinkable atrocities.'"
https://truthout.org/articles/violence-is-deeply-rooted-in-american-culture-interview-with-henry-a-giroux/
#CultureOfViolence #Militarism #MilitaryExtremism #USMilitary -
Violence is Deeply Rooted in American Culture: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux
By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout, January 17, 2013
"There is little doubt that the role of the #NRA is instrumental in the violence haunting American culture, or that gun control is important, but it is only one factor in the culture of symbolic and institutional violence that has such a powerful grip on the everyday cultural apparatuses and workings of American society. The issue of violence in America goes far beyond the issue of gun control. When gun control is the focus — instead of a broader consideration of violence — it can actually serve to deflect the most important questions that need to be raised. The grave reality is that violence saturates almost every aspect of North American culture. Domestically, violence weaves through the cultural and social landscape like a highly charged forest fire burning everything in its path. Popular culture, extending from Hollywood films and sports thuggery, to video games, embraces the spectacle of violence as the primary medium of entertainment. The real issue here is the existence of a pedagogy of violence that actually makes the power of deadly violence attractive. Representations of violence dominate the media and often parade before viewers less as an object of critique than as a for-profit spectacle, just as the language of violence and punishment now shapes the U.S. culture — with various registers of violence now informing school zero-tolerance policies, a bulging prison-industrial complex, and the growing militarization of everyday life. There is also the fact that as neoliberalism and its culture of cruelty weaves its way through the culture it makes the work place, schools, and other public spheres sites of rage, anger, humiliation, and misery, creating the foundation for blind rebellion against what might be termed intolerable conditions. Accepting the logic of radical individual responsibility, too many Americans blame themselves for being unemployed, homeless, and isolated and end up perceiving their misery as an individual failing and hence are vulnerable to forms of existential depression and collective rage. We have seen such violence among students reacting to bullying and among postal workers responding to intolerable work conditions. There is no one cause of violence, but a series of a number of causes that range from the war on drugs and the militarization of police departments to mass incarcerations in prisons to the return from brutal wars of many trained killers suffering with #PTSD. All of these factors combine in an explosive mix to create an dangerous culture of violence and cruelty and as Jeff Sparrow points out a 'willingness of ordinary people to commit unthinkable atrocities.'"
https://truthout.org/articles/violence-is-deeply-rooted-in-american-culture-interview-with-henry-a-giroux/
#CultureOfViolence #Militarism #MilitaryExtremism #USMilitary -
Violence is Deeply Rooted in American Culture: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux
By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout, January 17, 2013
"There is little doubt that the role of the #NRA is instrumental in the violence haunting American culture, or that gun control is important, but it is only one factor in the culture of symbolic and institutional violence that has such a powerful grip on the everyday cultural apparatuses and workings of American society. The issue of violence in America goes far beyond the issue of gun control. When gun control is the focus — instead of a broader consideration of violence — it can actually serve to deflect the most important questions that need to be raised. The grave reality is that violence saturates almost every aspect of North American culture. Domestically, violence weaves through the cultural and social landscape like a highly charged forest fire burning everything in its path. Popular culture, extending from Hollywood films and sports thuggery, to video games, embraces the spectacle of violence as the primary medium of entertainment. The real issue here is the existence of a pedagogy of violence that actually makes the power of deadly violence attractive. Representations of violence dominate the media and often parade before viewers less as an object of critique than as a for-profit spectacle, just as the language of violence and punishment now shapes the U.S. culture — with various registers of violence now informing school zero-tolerance policies, a bulging prison-industrial complex, and the growing militarization of everyday life. There is also the fact that as neoliberalism and its culture of cruelty weaves its way through the culture it makes the work place, schools, and other public spheres sites of rage, anger, humiliation, and misery, creating the foundation for blind rebellion against what might be termed intolerable conditions. Accepting the logic of radical individual responsibility, too many Americans blame themselves for being unemployed, homeless, and isolated and end up perceiving their misery as an individual failing and hence are vulnerable to forms of existential depression and collective rage. We have seen such violence among students reacting to bullying and among postal workers responding to intolerable work conditions. There is no one cause of violence, but a series of a number of causes that range from the war on drugs and the militarization of police departments to mass incarcerations in prisons to the return from brutal wars of many trained killers suffering with #PTSD. All of these factors combine in an explosive mix to create an dangerous culture of violence and cruelty and as Jeff Sparrow points out a 'willingness of ordinary people to commit unthinkable atrocities.'"
https://truthout.org/articles/violence-is-deeply-rooted-in-american-culture-interview-with-henry-a-giroux/
#CultureOfViolence #Militarism #MilitaryExtremism #USMilitary -
Violence is Deeply Rooted in American Culture: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux
By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout, January 17, 2013
"There is little doubt that the role of the #NRA is instrumental in the violence haunting American culture, or that gun control is important, but it is only one factor in the culture of symbolic and institutional violence that has such a powerful grip on the everyday cultural apparatuses and workings of American society. The issue of violence in America goes far beyond the issue of gun control. When gun control is the focus — instead of a broader consideration of violence — it can actually serve to deflect the most important questions that need to be raised. The grave reality is that violence saturates almost every aspect of North American culture. Domestically, violence weaves through the cultural and social landscape like a highly charged forest fire burning everything in its path. Popular culture, extending from Hollywood films and sports thuggery, to video games, embraces the spectacle of violence as the primary medium of entertainment. The real issue here is the existence of a pedagogy of violence that actually makes the power of deadly violence attractive. Representations of violence dominate the media and often parade before viewers less as an object of critique than as a for-profit spectacle, just as the language of violence and punishment now shapes the U.S. culture — with various registers of violence now informing school zero-tolerance policies, a bulging prison-industrial complex, and the growing militarization of everyday life. There is also the fact that as neoliberalism and its culture of cruelty weaves its way through the culture it makes the work place, schools, and other public spheres sites of rage, anger, humiliation, and misery, creating the foundation for blind rebellion against what might be termed intolerable conditions. Accepting the logic of radical individual responsibility, too many Americans blame themselves for being unemployed, homeless, and isolated and end up perceiving their misery as an individual failing and hence are vulnerable to forms of existential depression and collective rage. We have seen such violence among students reacting to bullying and among postal workers responding to intolerable work conditions. There is no one cause of violence, but a series of a number of causes that range from the war on drugs and the militarization of police departments to mass incarcerations in prisons to the return from brutal wars of many trained killers suffering with #PTSD. All of these factors combine in an explosive mix to create an dangerous culture of violence and cruelty and as Jeff Sparrow points out a 'willingness of ordinary people to commit unthinkable atrocities.'"
https://truthout.org/articles/violence-is-deeply-rooted-in-american-culture-interview-with-henry-a-giroux/
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How #Militarism Teaches Our Children That #Violence Is Normal
Erin Steuter, Ph.D.; and Geoff Martin, Ph.D.
January 10, 2019"The rise of violence and the gun culture in the United States and Canada cannot be separated from the rise in militarism, which is the belief that a country must maintain a strong military capability and must use, or threaten to use, force to protect and advance national interests. Militarism may appear to be a response to the external world, but it has significant internal social consequences. Retired Army Lt. Col. and military historian Andrew Bacevich (2005) pointed out that U.S. residents are enthralled with military power, and he warned that this can 'endanger our security at home' (p. 225). He defined a 'culture of militarism' as a situation in which the political leadership’s first response is to any challenge is to consider military force. The government counts on significant public support and uses popular-culture symbols to cultivate it. After 9/11, it became normal for patriotic fervor to once again be communicated through toys and entertainment."
Read more:
https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/winter-2018/how-militarism-teaches-our-children-violence-normal
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How #Militarism Teaches Our Children That #Violence Is Normal
Erin Steuter, Ph.D.; and Geoff Martin, Ph.D.
January 10, 2019"The rise of violence and the gun culture in the United States and Canada cannot be separated from the rise in militarism, which is the belief that a country must maintain a strong military capability and must use, or threaten to use, force to protect and advance national interests. Militarism may appear to be a response to the external world, but it has significant internal social consequences. Retired Army Lt. Col. and military historian Andrew Bacevich (2005) pointed out that U.S. residents are enthralled with military power, and he warned that this can 'endanger our security at home' (p. 225). He defined a 'culture of militarism' as a situation in which the political leadership’s first response is to any challenge is to consider military force. The government counts on significant public support and uses popular-culture symbols to cultivate it. After 9/11, it became normal for patriotic fervor to once again be communicated through toys and entertainment."
Read more:
https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/winter-2018/how-militarism-teaches-our-children-violence-normal
#CultureOfViolence #MilitaryExtremism #MAGAExtremism #MAGA -
How #Militarism Teaches Our Children That #Violence Is Normal
Erin Steuter, Ph.D.; and Geoff Martin, Ph.D.
January 10, 2019"The rise of violence and the gun culture in the United States and Canada cannot be separated from the rise in militarism, which is the belief that a country must maintain a strong military capability and must use, or threaten to use, force to protect and advance national interests. Militarism may appear to be a response to the external world, but it has significant internal social consequences. Retired Army Lt. Col. and military historian Andrew Bacevich (2005) pointed out that U.S. residents are enthralled with military power, and he warned that this can 'endanger our security at home' (p. 225). He defined a 'culture of militarism' as a situation in which the political leadership’s first response is to any challenge is to consider military force. The government counts on significant public support and uses popular-culture symbols to cultivate it. After 9/11, it became normal for patriotic fervor to once again be communicated through toys and entertainment."
Read more:
https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/winter-2018/how-militarism-teaches-our-children-violence-normal
#CultureOfViolence #MilitaryExtremism #MAGAExtremism #MAGA -
How #Militarism Teaches Our Children That #Violence Is Normal
Erin Steuter, Ph.D.; and Geoff Martin, Ph.D.
January 10, 2019"The rise of violence and the gun culture in the United States and Canada cannot be separated from the rise in militarism, which is the belief that a country must maintain a strong military capability and must use, or threaten to use, force to protect and advance national interests. Militarism may appear to be a response to the external world, but it has significant internal social consequences. Retired Army Lt. Col. and military historian Andrew Bacevich (2005) pointed out that U.S. residents are enthralled with military power, and he warned that this can 'endanger our security at home' (p. 225). He defined a 'culture of militarism' as a situation in which the political leadership’s first response is to any challenge is to consider military force. The government counts on significant public support and uses popular-culture symbols to cultivate it. After 9/11, it became normal for patriotic fervor to once again be communicated through toys and entertainment."
Read more:
https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/winter-2018/how-militarism-teaches-our-children-violence-normal
#CultureOfViolence #MilitaryExtremism #MAGAExtremism #MAGA -
How #Militarism Teaches Our Children That #Violence Is Normal
Erin Steuter, Ph.D.; and Geoff Martin, Ph.D.
January 10, 2019"The rise of violence and the gun culture in the United States and Canada cannot be separated from the rise in militarism, which is the belief that a country must maintain a strong military capability and must use, or threaten to use, force to protect and advance national interests. Militarism may appear to be a response to the external world, but it has significant internal social consequences. Retired Army Lt. Col. and military historian Andrew Bacevich (2005) pointed out that U.S. residents are enthralled with military power, and he warned that this can 'endanger our security at home' (p. 225). He defined a 'culture of militarism' as a situation in which the political leadership’s first response is to any challenge is to consider military force. The government counts on significant public support and uses popular-culture symbols to cultivate it. After 9/11, it became normal for patriotic fervor to once again be communicated through toys and entertainment."
Read more:
https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/winter-2018/how-militarism-teaches-our-children-violence-normal
#CultureOfViolence #MilitaryExtremism #MAGAExtremism #MAGA -
The US military has a problem with domestic violence. A culture of sexism and secrecy makes it harder to solve
By Joanna Robin in Washington DC
Sun 23 Jan 2022https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-24/us-military-domestic-violence/100765484
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His country trained him to fight. Then he turned against it. More like him are doing the same
By JASON DEAREN, MICHELLE R. SMITH and AARON KESSLER
October 17, 2024MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. (AP) — "The U.S. military trained him in explosives and battlefield tactics. Now the Iraq War veteran and enlisted National Guard member was calling for taking up arms against police and government officials in his own country."
https://apnews.com/article/military-extremism-pentagon-veterans-terrorism-capitol-riot-jan-6-0c1fdd7b6b761e9c9e8556a9b9e45dc9
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His country trained him to fight. Then he turned against it. More like him are doing the same
By JASON DEAREN, MICHELLE R. SMITH and AARON KESSLER
October 17, 2024MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. (AP) — "The U.S. military trained him in explosives and battlefield tactics. Now the Iraq War veteran and enlisted National Guard member was calling for taking up arms against police and government officials in his own country."
https://apnews.com/article/military-extremism-pentagon-veterans-terrorism-capitol-riot-jan-6-0c1fdd7b6b761e9c9e8556a9b9e45dc9
#USPol #RightWingExtremism #MilitaryExtremism #CultureOfViolence -
His country trained him to fight. Then he turned against it. More like him are doing the same
By JASON DEAREN, MICHELLE R. SMITH and AARON KESSLER
October 17, 2024MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. (AP) — "The U.S. military trained him in explosives and battlefield tactics. Now the Iraq War veteran and enlisted National Guard member was calling for taking up arms against police and government officials in his own country."
https://apnews.com/article/military-extremism-pentagon-veterans-terrorism-capitol-riot-jan-6-0c1fdd7b6b761e9c9e8556a9b9e45dc9
#USPol #RightWingExtremism #MilitaryExtremism #CultureOfViolence -
His country trained him to fight. Then he turned against it. More like him are doing the same
By JASON DEAREN, MICHELLE R. SMITH and AARON KESSLER
October 17, 2024MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. (AP) — "The U.S. military trained him in explosives and battlefield tactics. Now the Iraq War veteran and enlisted National Guard member was calling for taking up arms against police and government officials in his own country."
https://apnews.com/article/military-extremism-pentagon-veterans-terrorism-capitol-riot-jan-6-0c1fdd7b6b761e9c9e8556a9b9e45dc9
#USPol #RightWingExtremism #MilitaryExtremism #CultureOfViolence -
His country trained him to fight. Then he turned against it. More like him are doing the same
By JASON DEAREN, MICHELLE R. SMITH and AARON KESSLER
October 17, 2024MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. (AP) — "The U.S. military trained him in explosives and battlefield tactics. Now the Iraq War veteran and enlisted National Guard member was calling for taking up arms against police and government officials in his own country."
https://apnews.com/article/military-extremism-pentagon-veterans-terrorism-capitol-riot-jan-6-0c1fdd7b6b761e9c9e8556a9b9e45dc9
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Peterr on the Kansas City mass shooting:
"The question is not if there will be another shooting like this, but where it will be. I’m not one of those folks who were asking 'how could this happen here?' yesterday. My question is simply 'Who is next?'”
#guns #violence#Republicans #NRA #CultureofViolence #CultureofGuns #TooManyGuns #GunControl #KansasCity #Congress #SpecialInterests #lobbying
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/02/15/after-kansas-city-who-is-next/ -
Staking my claim in the AI "race" for new forms of IP... lol... this meditation product will "kill it" in the "digital public space" of the "metaverse" ... sigh.
cc @emilymbender @odannyboy @AINowInstitute
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RT @danlatorre
New career idea: making meditation machine learning AI bots for machine learning AI bots. #addictiontoprediction
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The image that grabbed us (the visceral connection), and the two that depressed us (the collusion of thoughts and prayers), from WAPO’s photo feature on the VA Walmart shooting. The remaining 27 pics are ones that we’ve seen—and will continue to—over and over. https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/interactive/2022/deadly-shooting-walmart-chesapeake/?itid=sf_photography #gunviolence #photojournalism #bodylanguage #news #media #photography #visualpolitics #america #massshootings #cultureofviolence
