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Defenseless Victim Zones
May 03, 2007
Mass murder invariably gets the Victim Disarmament Lobby into a lather promoting safety through helplessness. The Virginia Tech shooting is no exception. A brief but honest look at how…
Tags: blog, commentary, gun control
Desensitization, Detachment and Virginia Tech
Written by Lynn Kindler
To all family, friends, and people affected by the horrific and sad shootings at Virginia Tech, please accept my heartfelt sympathy. I know that I am joined by many others who are keeping you in their…
Tags: anger, blog, commentary, desensitization, detachment, emotion
Force of Nature
I broke down and turned on CNN to check out coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting. I see there and elsewhere, without really knowing the details from this morning's mayhem, that the media are turning to the question of…
Tags: blog, commentary
Guns Don't Kill People, Kids Who Play Video Games Kill People...
I apologize in advance for the tone of this piece. I thoroughly appreciate the devastating gravity of the situation, and I extend my heartfelt condolences to those families and friends affected.
Blacksburg, Virginia.
Less than…
Tags: blog, reaction, responsibility, society
Gut Reactions
1. Race Shame
As soon as I saw the shooter's name--Cho Seung-Hui--in the NYT this morning, I knew he was Korean. Crap. Ever since I got home last night after teaching, and my husband told me about the deadly…
Tags: blog, commentary, reaction
How to Stop a Killer
The tragic massacre this week at Virginia Tech will be one of those events that you will remember how you first heard the news, where you were when you heard it, and what you were doing at the time. Like September 11, 2001,…
Tags: blog, commentary, gun control
Immigrant Status of VA Tech Gunman: Does it Matter?
Following up on my last post about Seung Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech gunman, the evidence that’s coming out seems to suggest that among other things, he felt ridiculed for his social class background (at least in…
In Cho's defence...
"this is a lesson for all o. i think those American parents should learn a lesson or 2 from this. with the way their kids tease other people of different nationalities. i went to school abroad as well, and i can tell you…
Tags: blog, cho, commentary
In Memoriam: Virginia Tech, April 16, 2007
As one who worked with school districts across the country, I know the issue of school shootings is every school official's nightmare. The apparent random nature of all the shootings only makes the nightmare more fearful, for…
Tags: blog, commentary, reaction, reflection, school shootings, schools
Korean Reaction to VA Tech Shootings: Guilt vs. Solidarity
At the risk of overanalyzing the events surrounding the shootings at Virginia Tech last week, I would like to offer one last set of observations. In my previous posts, I've acknowledged that certainly, there are many…
Tags: blog, cho, korean, korean american, reaction
Letter from a VT Student
Tags: blog, commentary, letter
making sense of virginia tech
Like everyone else - here [Seattle], there [Virginia], West [United States, East [Korea], and everywhere, I am trying to make sense of something that is simply - senselesss. Personally,…
Tags: asian american, blog, cho, christian, community, identity, korean american, seattle, spirituality, violence
Mariacristina Blog Archive for Virginia Tech
April 29, 2007 at 3:28 pm · Filed under Virginia Tech, compassion, meditation, violence
I need to be hit with a ton of bricks for a message to sink in. For a long time I've spoken about gun control, nuclear…
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Massacre at Virginia Tech: Let the Media Exploitation Begin
I hate it how, whenever we have a national tragedy, journos just eat it up. The TV stations make logos for it, and slogans like "Massacre at Virginia Tech" that become ominous jingles as the…
Tags: blog, commentary, media
Media Coverage of the Virginia Tech Massacre
Television has once again gone on a rampage of gluttony over the tragic murders at Virginia Tech. However, it depends on your definition of what constitutes gluttony and what kind of TV you're talking…
Tags: blog, commentary, media
NBC Should Never Have Aired the Virginia Tech Video
May 07, 2007
The more I think and talk to people about NBC's handling of Cho Seung-Hui's videos following the tragedy at Virginia Tech, the more convinced I am the decision was mishandled…
Tags: blog, commentary, media
News Coverage of the VA tech Shooting
Topics like these are always hard to approach. For some, the event holds particular weight, either because of their relationship with the victims, with the assailant, with the location where it takes place, or because of the…
Tags: blog, commentary, media, news