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Pollitt, Katha | July 26, 1999 issue

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The article highlights rampant violence by youths in the United States. The shooting of six Orthodox Jews by Benjamin Smith is seen as expression of his verbal racial theories. Media violence is the trendy cause now. The U. S. government is not about to censor pop culture, a huge commercial enterprise, any more than it's about to enact real checks on guns, another huge commercial enterprise. Violent and stupid entertainment is popular because it corresponds to reality; which is often violent and stupid. Take a society in which half the population is armed; with astronomical rates of rape, domestic violence, child abuse and murder; which fights one war after another and glories in it, has a bad case of jock worship.

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YOUTH & violence; ORTHODOX Jews; SMITH, Benjamin; POPULAR culture; OFFENSES against the person; UNITED States
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