Our thanks to Gerry for this. He writes:

“Now we know. If you’re white and not able to find a girl then you’re an incel who hates women, and could be a domestic terrorist. 

But if you’re black and can’t find a girl then you might have mental health problems, especially if you hurt innocent people.

Nowhere in the news coverage of this case does the word ‘incel’ appear. 

One expert even uses the term ‘romantically unsuccessful’.”

Extracts from the article:

“Aranda told investigators he went to the mall “looking for someone to kill.” According to the complaint, he had tried unsuccessfully to talk to women in the mall but their rejection “caused him to lash out and be aggressive.” He said he had planned to kill an adult before choosing the child instead…

Aranda’s attorney, Paul Sellers, did not raise a mental illness defense.[J4MB emphasis: Why not?] Aranda did acknowledge in response to a question from the judge that he had been in mental health court previously and completed required treatment. They did not go into details…

Aranda’s mother, Becky Aranda, and family friend Jessica Harris told reporters afterward that he had been in and out of mental health treatment while growing up in Chicago, with frequently changing diagnoses, including attention deficit disorder, depression, autism and schizophrenia. They said that as far as they know, he was homeless before the attack. They said his comprehension level is more like a 5-year-old child’s than an adult’s. (J4MB emphasis.)

Becky Aranda said her son belongs in a mental hospital, not prison. She said she last saw him in November and had been rebuffed in her efforts to visit him in jail.

“We’re trying to figure out what happened, what led him to do this,” she said. “We need answers as much as everybody else.”

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