Beyond the official clichés: The Texas school shooting reveals the advanced sickness of American society
The American ruling elite, its politicians and its media outlets, have nothing insightful or useful to say about this most recent calamity.
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Hosted by the Northeast Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (ERFSC) and the New York, Boston, and Virginia chapters of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE).
Hosted by the Southern Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee (ERFSC) and the Texas International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE).
Hosted by the West Coast Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committees (ERFSC) and the West Coast chapters of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE).
Hosted by the Michigan and Chicago Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committees (ERFSC) and the Michigan and Illinois chapters of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE).
The American ruling elite, its politicians and its media outlets, have nothing insightful or useful to say about this most recent calamity.
Whatever the individual psychological issues which afflicted and possibly motivated Salvador Ramos to kill, they do not explain the routine outbursts of mass violence which plague American society.
As police attempted to cover up their complicity in the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, thousands of students protested unending gun violence in mass walkouts.
In two separate speeches over the weekend Biden and Pelosi said “evil” was to blame in the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings in an attempt to absolve the capitalist system and the Republican Party.
The scale of the horror and the depth of the public reaction suggest that something of a “tipping point” has been reached.
For the third time in as many days, Texas police officials offered a contradictory timeline concerning Tuesday’s mass killing.