Jeffrey Dahmer
We've called him a demon. We've labeled him a psychotic killer. We've called what he did in his apartment a massacre. We've looked to his family for clues, searched his face for motives, dug into his past for reasons. We've speculated, analyzed and hypothecated. And the truth is, we still don't know. So we've labeled Jeffrey Dahmer a monster. A monster, as any child knows, has evil horns and blood-stained fangs and seven toes on each foot. In other words, it looks nothing like you or me. The answers to all these questions may be yes. But there are other questions we ought to be asking that we're not. Why is it that Jeffrey Dahmer's victims almost exclusively happened to be black, Hispanic, Asian and gay? Is that merely a coincidence? Is that just where his tastes lay? Or did a boiling pot of racism, homophobia and craziness create a wicked, volatile brew that spilled over into the lives of at least 17 victims? Was Jeffrey Dahmer ultimately just carrying out the mandate of a racist and homophobic society -- to rid it of its untouchables? Because Dahmer preyed on those whom society very often considers to be ' disposable' anyway -- the faggots, the niggers, the junkies, the winos, the gooks and spics -- the ones that Andrew Dice Clay makes a fortune making fun of, the ones that the police beat up on, the ones that evangelists with large followings have suggested we lock up and segregate. He inhabited and stalked a world as subterranean and dark as the recesses of his own demented mind. A street preacher at one of the bars Dahmer used to frequent has already talked about the deep hatred Dahmer had for blacks and homosexuals. Certainly that hatred exists in people other than Dahmer. If it didn't, we wouldn't have grown men dressing up in white hoods and pointed caps. And scientists wasting their brilliance on devising even more efficient gas chambers. And we wouldn't have cops turning away from rescuing Dahmer's 14-year-old Laotian victim because they were...
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