Being “apolitical” is irrelevant, he could still just as easily know Kirk was a vicious homophobe or have some other feature that he despises personally even if he (the shooter) never bothered to even talk about subjects that he recognized as being political.
As I mentioned in another comment, it’s very easy to present as much more normal than you actually are even when you are basically more defined by mental illness than you are by actual personality traits. That is how I would describe myself, and I can still pass myself off as pretty normal if I choose to, with it being trivially easy over text outside of my slightly idiosyncratic writing voice that probably tips my hand on ASD. “Masking” is a real thing that many people learn how to do for various reasons.
Remember that he was raised by conservative parents in a conservative community, he almost surely learned the behavior that most conservatives learn of keeping most types of mental illness to yourself, except insofar as they can be expressed by performing your assigned gender roles or something.
Sometimes people are deeply unhappy and lash out and Kirk was a convenient asshole to kill and not feel bad about.
That isn’t the view given by his discord friends though. His discord logs make him seem like a normal happy person who never discusses politics.
Being “apolitical” is irrelevant, he could still just as easily know Kirk was a vicious homophobe or have some other feature that he despises personally even if he (the shooter) never bothered to even talk about subjects that he recognized as being political.
As I mentioned in another comment, it’s very easy to present as much more normal than you actually are even when you are basically more defined by mental illness than you are by actual personality traits. That is how I would describe myself, and I can still pass myself off as pretty normal if I choose to, with it being trivially easy over text outside of my slightly idiosyncratic writing voice that probably tips my hand on ASD. “Masking” is a real thing that many people learn how to do for various reasons.
Remember that he was raised by conservative parents in a conservative community, he almost surely learned the behavior that most conservatives learn of keeping most types of mental illness to yourself, except insofar as they can be expressed by performing your assigned gender roles or something.
I definitely get masking of course, but I’m at least a little more vocal about stuff online.