What Does Childhood Trauma Have to Do with White Supremacy?

What Does Childhood Trauma Have to Do with White Supremacy?psychologytoday.com

Extremism doesn't begin with a single event. Multiple adverse experiences can add up to give rise to extremist beliefs.

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The scope of adverse childhood experiences are so broad as to be meaningless. The average citizen of a rich country 200 years ago would have experienced far more adverse childhood experiences than a child in the same country today, yet we aren't any better off psychologically, if not worse off.

mushi_shi8 days ago

From the photos it's hard to tell if Santiago is "white" in the traditional white supremacist sense. Maybe we could get a change to "what does childhood trauma have to do with violent crime?"

rendx8 days ago

please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

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