Virginia Tech: Murder by Political Correctness

When PC Mentality & Isolationism Kill

Who murdered 32 people at Virginia Tech? Cho Seung-Hui. Why did he do it? He was a disturbed, mentally unbalanced man. Those answers are simple. You can not shift the blame to anyone else. The real question is why was it allowed to happen?

Calling for the head of the university's chancellor or the chief-of-police on a silver platter is a ridiculous, wasted effort. Blaming anyone other than Cho Seung-Hui is a futile exercise in Monday-morning quarterbacking. The facts of Cho's life leading up to the event indict each of us. We are the ones who could have stopped his senseless violence.

Campus Political Correctness
Higher education faculty ranks are filled with social liberals. In lieu of an education, college students are bombarded daily with useless, politically-motivated drivel. Political correctness has paralyzed authorities from taking actions necessary to protect the innocent.

None of Cho's victims at VA Tech did anything worthy of death, but no one did anything to stop him. Cho's roommates were wary of him. They never spoke out until after the fact. Others in the dormitory describe Cho as an individual to whom they never spoke and who never initiated conversations. They knew his behavior was abnormal, but they did nothing to intervene.

Cho was the proverbial loner. He was a textbook case of someone on the path of self-destruction bound to take as many with him as possible. All of the signs were there, but political correctness prevented action.

Virgina Tech's own web site reinforces the facts. A poem written by a faculty memeber typifies the leftist, rote teachings that are drilled into college students.

We do not understand this tragedy
We know we did nothing to deserve it
But neither does a child in Africa
Dying of AIDS
Neither do the Invisible Children
Walking the night away to avoid being captured by a rogue army
Neither does the baby elephant watching his community
Be devastated for ivory
Neither does the Mexican child looking
For fresh water
Neither does the Iraqi teenager dodging bombs

http://www.english.vt.edu -- Nikki Giovanni, April 17, 2007