CNN moving the "middle class" to the right.
All the while, we continue to miss other crucial variables -- even though they are staring right back at us when we look at that photograph. Adam Lanza was a middle class white guy.
If the shooter were black and the school urban, we'd hear about the culture of poverty; about how inner-city life breeds crime and violence; perhaps even some theories about a purported tendency among blacks towards violence.
As we've seen in the past week, it's not only those living on the fringes of society who express anger through gun violence. Yet the obvious fact that Lanza -- and nearly all the recent mass murderers who targeted non-work settings -- were middle class white boys seems to barely register. Look again at the pictures of Jared Lee Loughner (Tucson), James Eagan Holmes (Aurora) and Wade Michael Page (Oak Creek) -- a few of the mass killers of the past couple of years.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/19/living/men-guns-violence/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Nancy Lanza had no income at the time the marriage was legally dissolved, in September 2009. Her ex-husband, Peter Lanza, earned an annual salary of nearly $445,000 as an executive at General Electric and agreed to pay annual alimony of $240,000. That figure was scheduled to increase steadily for cost of living considerations, and Nancy Lanza was due to receive $289,800 in 2012, court records show.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/portrait-of-adam-lanza-and-his-family-begins-to-emerge/2012/12/17/376759ce-4862-11e2-820e-17eefac2f939_story.html
It's as if the mainstream media is getting talking points from Republicans about how SS cuts are worth it for "middle class" tax cuts to aid struggling families making $450K.