(June 20, 2015 at 9:34 pm)francismjenkins Wrote: I dunno ... the shooter in Charleston had references (in his scrabble brained manifesto) that sound a lot like scientific racism (which has been long refuted). So yeah, if we were doing a better job educating our kids, you have to think it would be helpful with social issues like racism. That said, I'm not going to take the leap and say that it would have prevented this shooting (that would be wild speculation).
Better education might mitigate the prevalence of racism overall, but I suspect extreme outlier in behavior such as this is likely the result of some unusual psychological make up. So it's not clear if one could really estimate what better education might have done for an extreme outlier like this one.
