I’ve been thinking about what I said the day before yesterday and I detect a weakness. Regardless of the testimony of the character named Nick, who in the 1990s appeared on the TV shows Geraldo and Phil Donahue, there is no evidence that Jeffrey Dahmer was sexually molested by his father over the years. That is one of the problems the investigator of psychological trauma often encounters: one has only assumptions.
While the criminologist Lonnie Athens, whom I mentioned in my post the day before yesterday, found that all the violent criminals he studied came from very abusive families, cases where the criminal completely represses his traumatic past, as was the Dahmer case, are much more difficult to study.
But even if the Netflix series portrayed the problem with rigour to the historical facts, it is easy to assume that the betrayal suffered by the boy Jeff when his father abandoned him, in addition to the behaviour of his crazy mother, may have caused those morbid aspects that the series portrays about his childhood. In other words, it doesn’t take sexual abuse to upset a child: emotional abuse, if immense, is more than enough.
If Dahmer were alive and a criminologist wanted to investigate his case, he could gain his trust in prison to subtly ascertain whether Nick’s allegations were true. But Dahmer is dead. That’s why I prefer crystal-clear cases that show that very abusive parents can drive one of their children insane. Anyone who would like to study one of these crystal-clear cases, I would suggest reading John Modrow’s How to Become a Schizophrenic.
Nick’s accusation aside, the Netflix series is abhorrent because it casts blacks and migrants as the victims not only of Dahmer but of a racist and homophobic police. I don’t know if the filmmakers are Jews but if they are Gentiles it’s even worse, as they are traitors to their race.
Quite apart from this betrayal, the series at least conveys the idea that a very dysfunctional family can unhinge a child. That doesn’t mean I recommend it; only that it has some value in conveying, through an abominable story, that a child’s spirit can be crushed at home.
2 replies on “Reconsidering Dahmer”
As far as I remember, your solution to the problem of those few families that abuse their children to the extreme degree would be the establishment of Hitlerjugend? But regarding finding and punishing the abusive parents themselves, how exactly would you proceed? Would you have the state police families intrusively? I’m not against it, but if so, then it must be another chasm between you and the typical American racists who are mostly for full-blown individualism and anarchy.
American conservatives, including racialists, believe in the family. We believe that the state should expropriate children as did the Spartans and, embryonically, the Nazis.
A parent who horribly abuses the child, like the ones Dahmer had, is as unconscious as Dahmer himself (click on the brown letters in the post above to see a YouTube clip of how dissociated Dahmer was about the role his parents played).
What we are talking about is prophylactic measures, such as forcing ethnostate parents to read heart-wrenching testimonies of victim-children, in addition to the Hitlerjugend which is a window of escape from abusive families.