A lot has been said about the Virginia Tech shooting. Another blog about it ain't really going to do much. To think so many people had todie so horribly, all because some Korean kid got overtly emo. It's Generation 'I' all over again. You can't really help but to feel pissed of at that ****.
Not to cheapen the deaths of the 33, but it's really funny when you see so much attention placed on that incident. It's been 4 days and the front page article is still something to do with or directly about the shooting.
For the record, I am in no way an insensitive prick. I am human and I feel a lot of sorrow for these victims. But shame on you. You as in the society.
Feel sad, feel hurt. Go on. But why make such a big yahoo out of this when the death toll in Sudan or even Iraq reaches these figures almost daily. What is so special about Virginia Tech that they take so much more coverage than any other disaster?
Is it because we are bored of the daily death tolls from Sudan? Hear it too many times that it gets old? OR, is it because it's the USA? A place where such violence is unheard of. For a country that legalizes firearms, it's kinda fun when it comes back to hurt you huh?
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2 comments:
I agree with you.
It's too much to read about the so called 'senseless killing' of 33 people on the front page when the real senseless killings of people are relegated to the back pages.
But you know, probably why such an incident goes on to the front page is because the other incidents happen too many times a month to be of real importance or of any special note.
I still do think such shootings are unnecessary & definitely result in tragedy. One or two idiots go crazy or get overtly emo & there goes the school. We shouldn't trivialize the horror of such incidents.
But yes, it's true that more hoo-haa is made over them because:
1. It happened in the States. If we've learned anything at all over the years (or at least, from Med Soc, if one had been living under a rock before that), it's that the country in which media is more prevalent will surely receive more attention, regarding such tragedies.
2. Dying young is accepted as a way of life in poverty-stricken areas. The Gen. I kids have just about all they could ask for - that's the way they live, so who cares about people dying in some other obscure part of the world? That's the way those people live. We'll carry on with our privileged lives & they, with their destitute ones. Mummy, I want new shoes!
3. People don't want to read about Africa or the Middle East. Sad but true. These regions already suffer the disadvantage of little local media prevalence. All the Gen. I kids know about these people, if anything at all, is that a) they are poor b) many people die there c) uh...
See? They're just not interested. And - surprise, surprise - the papers won't print stories or at least, won't splash big headlines, about issues the public is generally not interested in.
This is not to say the shooting was nothing - because it was definitely some screwed up shit - just that people would rather get a little emo, reading about it from afar, than bother with educating themselves about the fate of some AIDS-stricken African child.
I see your point. And it's sad. But true.
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