In his manifesto, he mentions Columbine. My guess is that he saw it as a blueprint to the course of action for "people who feel socially oppressed"
It's as if there is a "columbine routine" or a "postal routine" or a "suicide bomber routine"
He was diagnosed with autism in 1992. The social awkwardness and inability coupled with social prejudice and mistreatment most likely pushed him over the edge. His autism was not so severe to be totally alienated from society but enough to be misunderstood.
I bet he was mistreated for a long period of time even before college. Even in college, even if others extend a social invitation, he would not be accepted in the long run if he could not interact well and that was probably a recurring theme in his life. This sense of prejudice would breed pain and
anger. It's just tragic for everyone including Cho with his disability.
Va. Tech shooter was laughed at
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer 3 minutes ago
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Long before he boiled over, Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui was picked on, pushed around and laughed at over his shyness and the strange way he talked when he was a schoolboy in the Washington suburbs, former classmates say.
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Chris Davids, a Virginia Tech senior who graduated from Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., with Cho in 2003, recalled that the South Korean immigrant almost never opened his mouth and would ignore attempts to strike up a conversation.
Once, in English class, the teacher had the students read aloud, and when it was Cho's turn, he just looked down in silence, Davids recalled. Finally, after the teacher threatened him with an F for participation, Cho started to read in a strange, deep voice that sounded "like he had something in his mouth," Davids said.
"As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing and pointing and saying, `Go back to China,'" Davids said.
Intresting theory. I had wondered how Columbine fit into a person with irrational thinking...was he absorbed by it...did he find it horrid...or did he think it was an escape....
Was it a form of indiscriminate justice he'd been looking for?
How is repeated insanity rational at all?
A nutbag gets pissed at "society" and decides to kill a bunch of random people. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that is some irrational shit.
A nutbag gets pissed at "society" and decides to kill a bunch of random people. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that is some irrational shit.
Cho Seung-hui decision to kill 31 people in Virginia Tech on April 16, 2006, rational or irrational?
Refer to this thread for discussion: http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=65449
his plays: (he was English major)
http://news.aol.com/virginia-tech-s...ichard-mcbeef-cover-page/20070417134109990001
Way too many people here take a sneering tone towards people who have been bullied. So does the reporter who wrote Frustration might boil over when a person realizes how the press and the authorities treat victims of bullying. The authorities consider them to be meat and to be wrong and evil if they step outside of the role of prey.
Peta9, what about the bullying? Why is continued violence, ostracism, and isolation of a person not something that might push someone over the edge, and why is his social awkwardness likely to be the problem? NO ONE takes the conditions that he lived under well. People who are physically capable of it do violence a lot earlier, but they can simply punch someone around. This guy was what, five foot nothing? He could barely beat his own meat.
A rational person who actually watches what goes on and actually sees what people do comes to the conclusion that people are cruel and will destroy you for no apparent reason. Even their having a reason makes it more bearable because then the world has some kind of logic. So his writings sound like ravings, and I haven't gotten to read them yet, but if you can't make sense of the world and people have dedicated way too much effort to making sure that you don't make sense of the world, you aren't likely to be able to write all that well either.
Want these killings to stop happening? Stop being shitheads, people. Most of you would kill for a lot less than what some of you put people through as a reflex.
Parents?!!! He clearly stated that it was his comrades, students around him, with which he carried on his life so swiftly.
South Korea's largest newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported that Cho's family was poor when they lived in a Seoul suburb and decided to emigrate to seek a better life.
The family lived in a rented, basement apartment - usually the cheapest unit in a multi-apartment building, the newspaper reported quoting building owner Lim Bong-ae, 67. Police identified the shooter's father as Cho Seong-tae, 61.
"I didn't know what (Cho's father) did for a living. But they lived a poor life," Lim told the newspaper. "While emigrating, (Cho's father) said they were going to America because it is difficult to live here and that it's better to live in a place where he is unknown."
A former roommate, Xu Chen, remembered that after Cho's parents came for a visit, his mother took the roommate aside. "Help him," she said.
She was talking about her son, who authorities said was hospitalized in 2005 for depression...
Cho's father once worked as a dry cleaner and his mother is employed at the cafeteria of Centreville High School in Va., according to NPR reports.
What fantasies!
Doesn't anyone read anymore?
Are you that shallow? Were you born yesterday? That doesn't reveal anything. He still could have been abused. There are many parents who put on an act of the good parent. She was probably upset at his disability and didn't know how to keep him in line. Asian parents are notorious for worrying about their children's success mainly for their own image and the hope their child can take care of them as they age. As well, many are quite cold. His parents never visited him not even once the whole year he was in college, his roommates said. He also alone on holidays on campus when his family lived in the same state. Something doesn't sound right about that.
I know because I have parents who were unbelievably twisted and brilliant at hiding dirty secrets.
He was probably molested by a male schoolteacher.
Speaking of shallow, you sure registered your lack of real perspective on this one!!! It wasn't shallow at all - it clearly proved that he was NOT talking about his parents. He was ranting at fellow students AND teachers - the latter being the most affluent and with Mercedes, and the students being the ones with trust funds.
That does not mean he wasn't abused or neglected by them. Many children who are abused or failed by their parents internalize it and don't blame them because of their devotion. Even if what a parent does or does no do is not intentional, it can have devastating effects. He was bullied repeatedly and his parents probably did not take it seriously or realize the extent of the emotional and mental damage it was inflicting on his vulnerable person. They are his parents but may not have been there for him.