Liberals are also far too ready to assume Long is a racist rather than a mentally ill young man who believes his inability to curb his own sexual cravings are both immoral and the fault of people who run massage parlors. The assumption Long's crime was racially motivated helps feed the divisions on which the elite supremacists thrive. It serves the classism and imperialism that oppresses all of us.
Liberals are also far too ready to assume Long is a racist rather than a mentally ill young man who believes his inability to curb his own sexual cravings are both immoral and the fault of people who run massage parlors. The assumption Long's crime was racially motivated helps feed the divisions on which the elite supremacists thrive. It serves the classism and imperialism that oppresses all of us.