Not sure how this rant will turn out but hope it makes sense to some.
The world is upside down at the minute and because of social media and the way some people are we find ourselves at a point where when unspeakable acts are committed our TV and Media immediately look for blame somewhere. The problems lie much deeper than that, the human race needs to take a long hard look at itself as it lets religion, race, coulour , sexual orientation, age, disability or any other thing become a reason for people not to act in a decent and civilised fashion.
Kids grow up without values and some of these values that are missing were instilled in kids of my generation with force if required. Yes there were still bad people about but they still showed a modicum of respect for the law and the rules of society.
What we have now is a free for all with a woke society always coming up with an excuse for the reprobates committing atrocities in all countries. STOP making excuses for these people. Punishment starts early and needs to be meted out by responsible adults at school age and by responsible parents at home. The trouble is there is now a generational gap where it seems like the responsible adults have no idea how to act.
I do not care where this man/boy came from or his status as I have seen enough over the years to realise that we have enough degenerate people in our country to not sit on a high horse and judge others, what I care about is kids and adults lost their life because some ****wit thinks it is ok to pick up a knife and attack people. Punishment for this should be death as removing civil liberties for this person is not enough. Any person found guilty of these kinds of crimes should pay the ultimate price and their should be no excuses. That last sentence saddens me to write and causes me a lot of moral turmoil, but society on a whole needs a wake up call and the apologists need to realise that sometimes bad people are just that. BAD.
I agree with much of what you say but the whole modern "woke" thing is a bit derivative.
The likes of Sutcliffe, Shipman, Hindley and Brady, and the Wests were going about their business long before "woke" happened.
There's bad apples in every bushel unfortunately. A world increasingly concerned about self and wealth at the expense of community doesn't help but people have people cruel since before they came out of the cave, "wokery" is a poor fall guy for this horrific mess.