Oh, I forgot, brown people don't count.
Apr. 18th, 2007 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingVirginia Tech Massacre happens again, 4.75 times over, and yet nobody seems to give two shits. I wonder why? Oh, wait, a Virginia Tech Massacre's been happening AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH for the last FOUR YEARS STRAIGHT.
And those are just the ones Americans are responsible for.
See also: headlines of "worst massacre in US history" that appear to have completely missed a half dozen others where the victims were Americans, and that's leaving alone all the others where the Americans were just the shooters, not the victims. My Lai, anyone?
Why do I keep forgetting that having brown skin means you're not really human? I keep getting told that by Fox and CNN and NBC, over and over again, but it never seems to sink in.
And those are just the ones Americans are responsible for.
See also: headlines of "worst massacre in US history" that appear to have completely missed a half dozen others where the victims were Americans, and that's leaving alone all the others where the Americans were just the shooters, not the victims. My Lai, anyone?
Why do I keep forgetting that having brown skin means you're not really human? I keep getting told that by Fox and CNN and NBC, over and over again, but it never seems to sink in.
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Date: 2007-04-18 07:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-18 07:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-18 08:03 pm (UTC)But it really does seem as though these things get attention mostly out of a desire to agendize them. Everybody who wants to use the body count in Iraq to make a point has plenty of ammunition to make that point already, but the number of deaths that can be linked even in the most absurd manner to some aspect of popular Western culture is relatively lower.
This kid shot up a school. So his life is being scoured for some outside source to blame for the shootings, because we don't like to think about the possibility that some people are just crazy. Everybody wants something to vilify, be it games, or the social culture of Virginia Tech, or his parents, or the fact that he's in playwriting class (I know some people who want to put on productions of his plays), or whatever. His roommates say he listened to Collective Soul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_Soul) a lot prior to the shooting, so expect them to get some flak.
The bombings? We know what the cause is, and it's not something the armchair sociopsychologists can distance themselves from or condemn, so they just don't pay attention.