Virginia Tech Massacre, Part 2
 

it's kinda sad how far from the original topic we have wandered with all the personal attacks...

Originally posted by Guynemer
Ummm...

How come MtG is allowed to (correctly) call MOBIUS a complete ghoul, but when others do it they are threatened with bannings? (No offense to you, MtG. I'm rather enjoying this.) It could be because MOBIUS does the same thing to MtG. The logical thing would be to ban both, but it's not like the Mods should be some 24/7 babysitters with zero-tolerance policies.

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat Typical whiny prat. Most of the people have noticed this a long, long time ago. Kuci doesn't really post anything meaningful anymore. Just unbacked one-liners which are usually personal attacks. And they're not even imaginative, when I stopped listening he had been using his standard "You are a tool" reply to different posters making different points (valid and unvalid) 6 times within two days.

MSNBC is streaming the video. The guy sounds like a moron, his words are stupid, he blames people he won't name (I guess he means the rich?).

I'd say he has a mental disability in addition to being insane. How did he get into Virginia Tech?

His parents ran a cleaners, and his sister got into Princeton, IIRC, so maybe it's one of those pissed off at the world because everything wasn't handed to him the way he thought it should be things.

He's pretty incoherent, so it's probably futile to wonder what was going on in that fevered little brain.

oh no there is another massacre at Virginia Tech, how horrible, terrible timing too.... who is the suspect now?

I can't fathom this Korean collective guilt thing.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/..._korean18.html

Based on the *****'s so-called plays, a shrink now claims that he was sexually mollested when he was a kid.

I agree that he sounds like a ****ing moron in that clip. And WTF is he talking about when he says "I'm doing this for my children. for my sisters and brothers..."

Originally posted by nostromo
Based on the pr ick's so-called plays, a shrink now claims that he was sexually mollested when he was a kid.

I agree that he sounds like a fuc king moron in that clip. And WTF is he talking about when he says "I'm doing this for my children. for my sisters and brothers..." He sounded like he tried to find everything cliched from these types of videos as possible, and put them together in sloppy english.

sigh . . . .



When I first found out about this killing spree on Monday, I tried to make sense out of the carnage but I still am unable to.

Originally posted by MrFun
sigh . . . .



When I first found out about this killing spree on Monday, I tried to make sense out of the carnage but I still am unable to. Don't waste your time, You can't make sense out of this one, Columbine was something you could figure out what was going on in the minds of the attackers, but here, it is nonsensical and tragic....

Projection of this sort is just the flip side of the coin of collective guilt.

both barnabas

Originally posted by Bosh


I think a lot of it is more projection than guilt. The way so many Koreans went apeshit in 2002 after some American soldiers accidentally ran over two girls was really reprehensible. And if that's the accepted way to treat foreigners as a group when one of them does something, well... Yeah, nothing like that ever happens in the US...

Originally posted by nostromo
Based on the pr ick's so-called plays, a shrink now claims that he was sexually mollested when he was a kid. Bull-****ing-****.

He probably had a normal Asian childhood. Which is to say that it's very unlikely he was sexually molested, but rather his psyche was traumatized by the continual and utter repetition that he's a worthless failure and will never amount to anything, and that his parents have never been, are not now, and will never be, happy with him.

Oh, Asian parents. When those kids grow up and prove them wrong, the damage is already done.

And sometimes, they just snap.

edit: what he said

9/11 changed everything.

I keep thinking about that Romanian-born professor, who was a holocaust survivor.

He endured during a time when some human beings thought he, and all people like him, were vile and unworthy of life. He experienced the very worst that people do to their fellow people.

I don't think anything could shake my faith in humanity more than being subjected to what victims of the Holocaust were. Yet somehow, Librescu still managed to sacrifice his own life to let others survive. He saw what terrible things humanity was capable of and gave his life for his fellow humans anyway.

This is the kind of person we need to remember in the face of senseless murder and cruelty.

Just got back from some business travel and went through both threads. Whew.

My condolences to the VaTech community, especially the victims, their classmates and friends.

Threads like this can be be revelatory. I've been forced to reassess my overly generous assessment of the intelligence and maturity of several Poly posters.

I just think that it's incredible that the guy was known to have psychiatric symptoms to the degree that he had been hospitalized for this reason a couple of years ago, and he still easily got hold of two firearms... The "background check" (if it was actually done) was obviously pathetic.

-Arrian

Originally posted by Geronimo


I can think of two possible backlashes by Americans he might have in mind.

The backlash against muslims following the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks.

I'm not sure how either of those reactions compared to the korean reaction to the death of the two girls. Your not serious are you? Reaction to people of Islamic faith was and is surprisingly muted. Actually a credit to the sensibility of Americans and truth be told one of the few things Bush did right by urging restraint. The fact that a few (emphasis few) bigots are around is not the same as a governmental response.

A more appropriate response would be Japanese-American internment circa WW2.

Ditto. One of the few things that make me hopeful that bigotry is on the wane (despite best attempts to sensationalize it whenever possible).