Comments on: Virginia Tech shooter a Korean student: report

By: ●~*

●~* — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:20:59 +0000

Yes, I agree with Baduk.
May god bless America.
If Cho had been in Korea, this unilateral, authoratiative, one-sided, success-biased, bigoted country, he would have been more worse than anyone can imagine. And you see many deserted people in Korea, ending in one’s own suicide at the cul-de-sac.

By: baduk

baduk — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:13:55 +0000

I have just heard that VT even had a small tribute for Cho included in the memorial.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenew.....212502.htm

In the article,
”
“I just wanted you to know that I am not mad at you. I don’t hate you,” read a note among flowers at a stone marker labeled for Cho. “I am so sorry that you could find no help or comfort.”
”

I am all chocked up. America is a great country and beautiful people live here.

God bless America.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:32:56 +0000

This story is moving off the front pages, but I happened to remember that the deadliest act of school violence in US history took place nearly a century ago in a very small town near where I grew up.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/se.....ies_5.html

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:29:53 +0000

This story is finally moving off the front pages, but I happened to remember another act of mass violence at school that claimed 45 lives nearly a century ago in a very little town not too far from my hometown. I believe its record as the deadliest act of violence at a US school still stands:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/se.....ies_5.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

By: railwaycharm

railwaycharm — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:06:36 +0000

Baduk, Thanks for taking the race and self-loathing out of the equation.

By: baduk

baduk — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:44:40 +0000

The final word from Wapo,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....id=topnews

1) Cho had mental disease from birth.
2) Family was too poor to do anything about it.
3) Situation worsened in America.
4) The college, police, professors, fellow students cannot do anything about Cho.
5) Guns were freely available.

Input: mental disease, poverty, gun
Output : 32 dead.

By: railwaycharm

railwaycharm — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:01:25 +0000

bluetranslator, you can help the situation, you can!

By: Fantasy

Fantasy — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:08:45 +0000

“My goal in posting in these types of sites is to foster understanding among various communities. Take it or leave it. I want the “foreigners” in Korea, whether they’re in it for the short-term or the long-term, whether they’re migrant workers, English teachers, or GI’s, to be treated with respect and dignity.”

Okay, Bluetranslator, I am willing to accept that this is your real intention although it seemed different to me at first. At the risk of sounding pompous, let us jointly work towards a better understanding between people with a different racial or ethnic background, with different religions or no religion at all, or of a different gender or sexual preference. I, of course only being in a position to speak for myself, genuinely hope that you will continue posting here.

Korea is, after all, not a bad country, but there is still room for improvement…

By: bluetranslator

bluetranslator — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:22:22 +0000

Sonagi,

I made an earnest effort to try to reach out to the expat community in my post. If you want to parse a little part of that, link that to an earlier post of mine–for the tone of which I’ve expressed regret–be my guest. If after reading my post (#458), you still choose to be hostile, I can’t help the situation.

My goal in posting in these types of sites is to foster understanding among various communities. Take it or leave it. I want the “foreigners” in Korea, whether they’re in it for the short-term or the long-term, whether they’re migrant workers, English teachers, or GI’s, to be treated with respect and dignity. If you want to knitpick and ridicule or sabotage my efforts, I can’t help you. I’m tired of trying. Fuck this site.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:00:11 +0000

Is this the “nuanced INTELLECTUAL argument you were talking about, bluetranslator?

“What I said, and I still stand by it, is that the press made an odd UNANIMOUS choice in presenting his name in a fashion that really turns him into a “foreigner”, one of them, rather than “us.” “

I believe Slim gave you some sage advice about not digging yourself out of a hole.