Showing posts with label Cho Seung-Hui. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cho Seung-Hui. Show all posts
So Why
was Cho Seung-Hui off his nut?
This is an extremely disturbed person, but it is clear, if one listens to his words, that conditions in society were playing on his mind. He felt many resentments. This doesn’t justify any of his insane acts, but the resentments have a real basis. He was mentally unbalanced, but that doesn’t mean there was no connection between social life and what he did. And now television analysts begin heaping abuse on his head, as a substitute for taking the problems seriously. “He was a coward,” and so on. This is almost a provocation, an incitement of others.
The resentments are real. Huge social divisions exist on a college campus. Snobbery and elitism exist. With Cho, the resentments were psychotically internalized and developed in a pathological manner. The society denies that social classes exists, it papers over social inequality. The contradictions emerge in a malignant fashion, they explode in this anti-social form.
Police Were So Busy
trying to follow an ultimately fruitless lead, there was a two-hour delay.
It probably would have been difficult if not impossible to shut down the campus considering its immense size and student body, with most of the students living off-campus.
It probably would have been difficult if not impossible to shut down the campus considering its immense size and student body, with most of the students living off-campus.
The writings of Cho Seung-Hui, believed to be the shooter in the Virginia Tech massacre, were considered disturbing. (Via ABC)
The WSWS
has its take on the Virginia Tech Massacre.
It is easy to second-guess the school's administration and police regarding warnings after the initial shooting. However, this campus is gigantic, over 2,600 acres, and there are something like 26,000 students, more than half of whom commute to school. It simply would have been impossible to shut down the campus.
Right now the alleged shooter has been identified at the press conference. He was a 23-year-old English major who lived on campus named Cho Seung-Hui from South Korea.
More is here.
It is easy to second-guess the school's administration and police regarding warnings after the initial shooting. However, this campus is gigantic, over 2,600 acres, and there are something like 26,000 students, more than half of whom commute to school. It simply would have been impossible to shut down the campus.
Right now the alleged shooter has been identified at the press conference. He was a 23-year-old English major who lived on campus named Cho Seung-Hui from South Korea.
More is here.
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