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The Unexpected Subtleties Of A Nazi Salute
Musk told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
On July 29th, 2024, at a dance and yoga workshop in Southport, England, a 17-year-old named Axel Rudakubana murdered three little girls.
They were six, seven, and nine years old.
Rudakubana seriously wounded eight other girls, aged between six and eleven, and stabbed the workshop instructor and a passer-by as they tried to intervene. And while this is tragic in its own right, the real tragedy is that there were absolutely no signs of this violent, unstable behaviour beforehand.
…I mean, true, in 2019, when Rudakubana was just thirteen years old, he contacted a child helpline and asked, “What should I do if I want to kill somebody?”
But that’s just talk! If we took every child who asked for help with their murderous impulses seriously, we’d never get anything done!
And sure, later that year, Rudakubana was expelled from school for threatening to stab a fellow pupil with a knife he’d brought into class.
But boys will be boys, right?! What kind of snowflake sounds the alarm because a kid comes to school with a “hit list” and tries to stab one of his classmates?
