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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because he's white and good looking, basically. People are literally that dumb.  :roll: 
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Yup.  I've noticed that people have a lot more sympathy for the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and James Holmes than they did for Lee Boyd Malvo or Seung Cho.  Many people react to the former two as tragic characters who had something that "turned" them wrong.  And far more people react to the latter two as "they are evil".  I heard so many people say that the black Malvo was destined to be a criminal because he's black and that Cho was a terrorist and that because of him we need to improve our border security because you can't trust "them."

So many people do react so subconsciously just seeing the non-white killers.[/quote]

I am a PP who posted agreement with the OP. Huge differences among the cases you name. Holmes and Cho were clearly mentally ill. I do feel a similar kind of sympathy for Malvo - seemed like a kid lacking direction who ended up being guided and having his character shaped by a psychopath - as I do for Dzhokhar, who also seems to have been heavily influenced, in his case by his brother. But I think the difference is that we have such a complete picture of Dzhokhar - his twitter feed, photos of him and his friends, so many testimonials as to his character and social ease, that he is easier for us to identify with - or at least easier to see our friends or sons or neighbors resembling. 
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The only Chechen relative I feel sorry for so far is the one in Gaithersburg.  The others are taking an FU attitude towards the USA and these criminals.

Lanza parents should have done something - but the mother was also a gun enthusiast beyond venison once per year.  Weird.

Is the sympathy for DT or for anyone who was some one's child and committed an atrocity?  Jeffrey Dahmer had parents:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/17/lkl.00.html

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