Dennis, Shane and others fucked with me all the time.
I should have done something about it but I'm too much of a "pussy."
I should have done something about it but I'm too much of a "pussy."
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A second look at Virginia Tech (1 Viewer)
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The solution is very simple. It's called showing a little humanity. How about the teacher not berate him in front of the whole class? And not threaten to resign if he's not removed? How about other teachers not doing the same also? The girl he hit on called his dad, who eventually made the cops come and bring him in as if he were some kind of criminal suspect. Can you say monumental overreaction? I'd like to say how about the other kids not treating him like dirt, but I know that is basically a pipe dream. The point is he got it from ALL angles all at once, he didn't have anything to cling to.
Society doesn't bully, people do. That's why the guy who wrote this is sociologist, it's about group dynamic, belonging to a group or failing to. It's kind of hard to blame the kids in this case without impuning the whole of society, but the teachers damn well should have known better.
What about the fact that cases like Cho exist and the so called system fails to detect them, help them?
What about the fact that cases like Cho exist and the so called system fails to detect them, help them?
No I have a problem with people being abused. What I don't like is the accusation that someone is abused by an entire environment. As if bullying was a sport done by an entire society be it the student body of Va Tech or the engineering department. Those who know anything about bullying know it's a practice done by a few and not the many. It's virtually that the entire student body or even the entire engineering department of Virginia Tech were active bullies in this guy's life. What's more realistic is that a few people in his life were very, very, harsh with him. Now when you are bullied, it feels like the whole world is against you, even if they aren't. Off-hand comments which may be in jest are not accepted as so. But the fact is that it stems from a few. I think you may be more successful in your endeavor of damning society to focus on the individuals that actually participate in bullying. I'm sure you realize that attempting to change an entire society is fruitless. Unless you have a crap ton of LSD and about 60 million copies of the Barney theme song.
Um. I do understand that Cho was weaker than me. At the same time, in my younger years I was weak too, in fact I'm almost positive I was a lot weaker than many back then. I'm not saying we're the same, but there are lots of people who display weakness, be it depression, bipolar disorder, or something else, at different times in there lives yet find a light at the end of the tunnel and turn out just fine.
Right and wrong aren't really personal standards. Especially, when the decision is between mass murder and not mass murder. He obviously knew what he did was wrong, remember he did shoot himself. It's not like he was reared in a society where it is perfectly ok to kill those that wrong you or those that you think have wronged you.
Um. I do understand that Cho was weaker than me. At the same time, in my younger years I was weak too, in fact I'm almost positive I was a lot weaker than many back then. I'm not saying we're the same, but there are lots of people who display weakness, be it depression, bipolar disorder, or something else, at different times in there lives yet find a light at the end of the tunnel and turn out just fine.
Right and wrong aren't really personal standards. Especially, when the decision is between mass murder and not mass murder. He obviously knew what he did was wrong, remember he did shoot himself. It's not like he was reared in a society where it is perfectly ok to kill those that wrong you or those that you think have wronged you.
