I was just thinking about how the Vietnam War propaganda dehumanized people and how just soldiers became serial killers, but that propaganda was going on in US soil too.

Would it be a stretch to correlate the Vietnam War with the uptick of serial killers in the US at the time?

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think it would be

[–] SupFBI@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

That and the lead levels.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Many lesser known serial killers have been vets of the war. I don’t know if they have been proven to actually fight in it. But it doesn’t matter because when all your buddies brag about raping some woman or burning down a village because he felt insulted, you normalize that forever.

We don’t really see a serial killer phenomenon with the war on terror. But we do see a mass shooter phenomenon. Again, it’s the propaganda, dehumanization, and sanitization of violence.

[–] StalinwasaGryffindor@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

This is completely speculation on my part, but I think there is a serial killer phenomenon in the war on terror. It’s just not as visible in the imperial core because for the last 20 years you could sign up to a voluntary military and then go on a spree of whatever depravity you desired and it would be covered up or ignored