Behavioral science does not know the motive of an individual before an investigation. The only field with expertise in immediately knowing motive, is “Psychic Mind Reading”. I am referring to the Buffalo man who mass-murdered a number of people because they were Black.
Within public health, “behavioral health” is the place where behavioral science asserts its reason. Behavioral health is psychology and behavioral science. I retired in December, so I have no information on how public health is responding. Hopefully, public health would encourage the public to (a) Not jump to conclusions,(b) Be assured that this horrible hate crime comes from a place on the fringe, not mainstream.
Independent of crime details, the Buffalo hate-crimer/mass murderer and those who are adjacent are given a frequent message “Your race group is inherently pathological”. We all get the same message “White race is bad” from almost every institution. Our institutions are causing harm, independent of whatever turns out to be the Buffalo story. While the vast majority of us are not hate-crime adjacent, we need to be aware of their brainwash-vulnerability. Manipulation, misinformation and misguidance turn people into hate-crimers. Our job is to compete by selling a better story to would-be future hate crimers, so that that we steal the business from the competition. A better story is not “Your race is pathological”, but “You belong and we all belong”.
On mental illness; every time a major hate crime occurs, one side of debate says “Yes” and the other “No” for reasons that are political, not professional. As I was not the Buffalo hate-crimer’s therapist, I have no opinion.
Behavioral science does not know the motive of an individual before an investigation. The only field with expertise in immediately knowing motive, is “Psychic Mind Reading”. I am referring to the Buffalo man who mass-murdered a number of people because they were Black.
Within public health, “behavioral health” is the place where behavioral science asserts its reason. Behavioral health is psychology and behavioral science. I retired in December, so I have no information on how public health is responding. Hopefully, public health would encourage the public to (a) Not jump to conclusions,(b) Be assured that this horrible hate crime comes from a place on the fringe, not mainstream.
Independent of crime details, the Buffalo hate-crimer/mass murderer and those who are adjacent are given a frequent message “Your race group is inherently pathological”. We all get the same message “White race is bad” from almost every institution. Our institutions are causing harm, independent of whatever turns out to be the Buffalo story. While the vast majority of us are not hate-crime adjacent, we need to be aware of their brainwash-vulnerability. Manipulation, misinformation and misguidance turn people into hate-crimers. Our job is to compete by selling a better story to would-be future hate crimers, so that that we steal the business from the competition. A better story is not “Your race is pathological”, but “You belong and we all belong”.
On mental illness; every time a major hate crime occurs, one side of debate says “Yes” and the other “No” for reasons that are political, not professional. As I was not the Buffalo hate-crimer’s therapist, I have no opinion.