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What I find weird about this is how unbalanced people assign blame. A white young male mass shooter: absolutely society's fault.
When anybody else does something bad, the internet is much less forgiving.
Take an incredibly tame example as comparison: Amber Heard. The internet hates that person, although her life was shit and she isn't even a murderer. I've never ever seen someone say it's society's fault that she acted like a douche.
Or take another mass shooter: Andrew Bing, who was a young black man and killed 6. You don't have people on communities like 4chan, Lemmy and Reddit falling all over themselves blaming society and discussing his tragic life.
It does come off a lot as if the average person online, has a much easier time to sympathise with some people. And in consequence they give these people much more leeway than others.