Deadly shooting at US university

The coverage has been unashamedly racist. Cho's family also released an apology which started with "The Whole World weeps.." I'm wondering if I was a mother in a third world country or any country besides america who had lost their child, if they would weep for me. Yet the "Whole World" needs to stop and mourn america's loss of "33" people.


Whenever anything really bad happens around Korean people, that is when I would like to hide, go to Hawaii and eat spam sushi until it blows over. I don’t want to comment on it because I don't want to escalate the situation and I don't want to implicate myself in it. I don't want to 'come out' as Asian because therein lies a tremendous responsibility that I never volunteered for, that I don't have any real control over, and that is as mysterious to me as it is to someone who isn't Asian.

So here is the whole terrible mess of the shootings at Virginia Tech. I look at the shooter's expressionless face on the news and he looks so familiar, like he could be in my family. Just another one of us. But how can he be us when what he has done is so terrible? Here is where I can really envy white people because when white people do something that is inexplicably awful, so brutally and horribly wrong, nobody says – “do you think it is because he is white?” There are no headlines calling him the “White shooter." There is no mention of race because there is no thought in anyone's mind that his race had anything to do with his crime.

So much attention is focused on the Asian-ness of the shooter, how the Korean community is reacting to it, South Korea's careful condolences and cautiously expressed fear that it will somehow impact the South Korean population at large.

What is lost here is the grief. What is lost is the great, looming sadness that we should all feel over this. We lose our humanity to racism, time and time again.

I extend my deepest sympathies to all those who lost their loved ones, their children, their friends and family, in this unimaginable tragedy. I send them all the love I have in me, and I encourage everyone to do the same.
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In China, since 1990, at least 18,008 people have been put to death. Last year alone, Amnesty International logged 1,077 executions -- an average of nearly three a day -- while the rest of the world's countries that practice capital punishment together racked up 736
 
i dont like the fact that the leader of korea said sorry. he is way to nice. it wasnt his fault one guy did some bullshit :)


you shouldent have to appologise for somebody elses actions just because they are the same race as you,

peace.
 
Numbers from a county in China.

Maguan’s per capita execution rate for the 1990s to China as a whole yields an national
average of 22,000 executions annually.
 
my korean friends havent even mentioned it once. they dont care that he was korean. he is just another man the race of him does not matter one little bit. people focus too much on where somebody is from.


peace.
 
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you shouldent have to appologise for somebody elses actions just because they are the same race as you,
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my korean friends havent even mentioned it once. they dont care that he was korean. he is just another man the race of him does not matter one little bit. people focus too much on where somebody is from.
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Agreed.
 
peta9 said:
The coverage has been unashamedly racist. Cho's family also released an apology which started with "The Whole World weeps.." I'm wondering if I was a mother in a third world country or any country besides america who had lost their child, if they would weep for me. Yet the "Whole World" needs to stop and mourn america's loss of "33" people.
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That comment is utterly absurd. A mother who found out on the same day that her son was dead and that he had commited an unspeakable atrocity. She must bear not only the loss of her son, but the guilt of wondering what she did wrong in raising him. Any such person would feel as though the "whole world" was weeping.

You who are full of such empathy for the mass murderer, have none for his mother. You even go so far as to call her a racist for thinking the whole world weeps with her?

Unbelievable.
 
madanthonywayne said:
That comment is utterly absurd. A mother who found out on the same day that her son was dead and that he had commited an unspeakable atrocity. She must bear not only the loss of her son, but the guilt of wondering what she did wrong in raising him. Any such person would feel as though the "whole world" was weeping.

You who are full of such empathy for the mass murderer, have none for his mother. You even go so far as to call her a racist for thinking the whole world weeps with her?

Unbelievable.
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No, you misunderstand completely and pretending the media has not been racist. Since this shooting has occured, the korean-american community as well as the korean community abroad have been braced for a serious backlash because they are aware how racist america really is. They are aware that when these incidents occur, the 'foreigners' are all of a sudden not quite american.

The apology was released by his sister and the "whole world" sphiel is more to placate the sense of gravity and importance of america's loss because they expect and demand it.

Sorry but I have sympathy for his family and the other families as well but the racist slant of the news coverage and the response of the american public is dramatically paranoid witchhunting.
 
What the hell are you talking about? I'd heard that Koreans were concerned, but I've not heard anyone suggest we start lynching Koreans because one of them was a nutjob.

The Korean community may be "braced" for a backlash, but one has not occured.

How is a nonexistant backlash racist?
 
one_raven said:
I don't know.
I don't read his insane ramblings.
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I did. Then I made the painful discovery that snorting with laughter while drinking orange juice is actually quite painful.

peta9 said:
Since this shooting has occured, the korean-american community as well as the korean community abroad have been braced for a serious backlash because they are aware how racist america really is. They are aware that when these incidents occur, the 'foreigners' are all of a sudden not quite american.
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Whatever for? Just because he was born in Korea does not mean that all are the same or that his race somehow ensured this was going to happen. On the contrary, I think his actions kind of make him very American in so many ways. The buying of the guns and then keeping the video diary and posting it to the media.. it is very much American. His killings however do not signify the actions of any one race. Only the actions of a madman.
 
Bells said:
I did. Then I made the painful discovery that snorting with laughter while drinking orange juice is actually quite painful.


Whatever for? Just because he was born in Korea does not mean that all are the same or that his race somehow ensured this was going to happen. On the contrary, I think his actions kind of make him very American in so many ways. The buying of the guns and then keeping the video diary and posting it to the media.. it is very much American. His killings however do not signify the actions of any one race. Only the actions of a madman.
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Well said Bell's. From someone who endured 40mph dodge balls in gym class:bawl:

picked on:rolleyes:
 
It seems to me he succumrbed to the stress. Wasnt he in his alst year? Would a poor African Anmerican or for that matter a poor white kid be given the sam opppertunities this person (autistic no less) had gotten.

This guy got a pass not many peole get. But i dont think people from other nations woud understand this.
 
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kmguru said:
24 pages...did anyone talk about SSRIs (antidepressants) that the guy was on?
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exactly.

Everyone wants to blame it on him...him and him, while the outside world is an innocent lamb. Meanwhile those who receive antidepressants are the ones that come to conclusion to tie it up with this world. Because after a while they begin not to take those antidepressants, which leads to even more psychological downfall.
 
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