Hypothesis: Social Media Amplified Mental Illness Among young US-born individuals
In the mordern US, Social Media implicitly amplifies social pressure on individuals. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and bombarded news are some examples. In addition, income inequality and globalization also create anger and xenophobia toward immigrant groups. Consequently, it creates more depression, loneliness and violent among young native born indiviuals. Recent mass shooting events are some examples. What do you think? Any proposed solution to the issue? Please have a civic discourse and avoid personal attack or deflect to different issue. p/s: I also attached a bar chart for number of mass shooting fatalities in the US from 1984-2017 by Economist. It is NOT normal.
Many of these shootings are politically motivated. The last time the far-right grew and tried to mainstream, a federal building was blown up... without any social media. It’s not video games, heavy metal, rap, action movies or social media.
So we aren’t going to talk about Antifa shooting Congress members or ICE facilities?
When did Antifa shoot Congress members? I couldn’t find anything linking Hodgkinson to Antifa if that’s who you were talking about? Still trying to figure out where you’re talking about anyone shooting up an ICE facility.
You’d need a lot more than what you posted to get from correlation to causation.
Agree. That’s why I called it a hypothesis. Yet, many pro gun supporters blame people with mental illness as a cause.
Some countries block it outright or shut it down when it’s convenient.
I think that's called the media contagion effect. Kind of compelling, since overall gun crime went down when mass shootings went up. But that just make the problem harder to solve: passing gun control with a Republican senate and WH is probably easier than getting cable news to show tact.
Where in the data does it imply these are all committed by ‘natives’ ? The data did show that 60% of the shooters were non-white. Per mother Jones
I did not say “white” in any of my comment. Stop making everything became a race issue.
I never said you did. Reread. I’ve read the study so I was adding an interesting metric
I think at least most of us can agree that mass shooters are mentally ill. So, putting that behind us we can now get back to our regularly scheduled disagreement: has the rapid rise in the prevalence of social media caused or at least exacerbated mental illness? A couple of thinking points so that you all can sleep even less: 1). The use of propaganda and PsyOps are proven tools to sway mass opinion and to prompt would-be actors to climb out of their mom's basement and go do something. 2). The definition of 'do something' can vary in degree from marching in an anti-trump campaign, to shutting down free speech at a university under the guise of a made up concept like 'micro-aggression, to marching in a KKK rally to preserve some false concept of white purity, to shooting up the place while muttering something about global warming and income inequality. 3). All of these activities have a couple things in common -- one, the people doing them feel that their cause is the correct one and that their outage is justified. And two, the extremes that they are willing to go to are definitely signs of mental illness.
Mother Jones??? From someone who complains about Breitbart? Nope, no agenda there!!
Do you have any argument or facts to add here? If not, GTFO.
I just did. GTFO