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Virginia Tech: Murder by Political Correctness

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When PC Mentality & Isolationism Kill

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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

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The reason he was able to kill a further 30 people is because the 'politically correct' idiots who found out about the first two murders, didn't want to be 'racist' by telling the rest of the university "Beware, there could be a Korean murderer on the loose, and we haven't captured him yet", so the scum in power allowed him to carry on unhindered, and he then murdered 30 MORE people. Had he been WHITE, the university would have been locked down as soon as he'd killed the first two people, and all white males would instantly have been under suspicion. THAT is why so many were murdered. The poem is an absolute classic example of the moronic leftie mindset, by the way.
This may sound bad at first but this is the kind of thing that people need to know about. Everyone's so worried about hurting someone's feelings that they just don't seem to care. I used to live near a guy like that, he'd get drunk and spout all sorts of gospel to the point you just wanted to knock him out. The police were called on him several times by a dozen different people but the police didn't want to be bothered, to them he was a harmless eccentric. There's a time to turn the other cheek and a time to let what you believe to be known.
I know it. There was this one guy in a mobile home park, terrorizing many tenants with consistent stalking, staring, watching, and following behaviors. The authorities excuse for him was that he was harmless, had epilepsy, and was mentally challenged, thus he was not going to harm anyone. Meanwhile, after the authorities had been called him a few times, and one tenant almost killed him for his stalking, he was allowed to continue it under the excuse of being mentally challenged. One woman who was really betting the brunt of his stalking complained three times about and was the evicted, while the mentally challenged was allowed to stay on the premises irritating, scaring, and pissing off tenants whenever he wanted. This happened at Whispering Pines Mobile Home Park in Dobbins, CA. 14,444 Merriam Rd. Don't move here. You will be treated like steak for the managers precious mentally challenged tenants, and she won't give a shit edgewise about you if you are not a mentally challenged.
This is interesting and thought provoking. good job.
Wow, an amazing read. The comments are equally thought-provoking. I agree that we cannot single out everyone that is "odd" for fear that they are going to go postal. However, we cannot simply avoid them either. We each have a social responsibility to look out for one another. While isolationism is certainly appealing, the idea of a healthy community, where people genuinely care, is equally so.
Love the comments. Realisticaly, any person deemed a threat to himself and/or others should automatically be restricted from purchasing or possessing a firearm. That was the intent of the law. The law is not a slap on the mentally ill community.
Again, pithy and thought-provoking and, to some, downright provoking. I wish I could write like you, Randy.
This is really impressive for its analysis and ability to provoke meaningful thought and discussion. Outstanding!
Hi This should be a companion piece to Timothy Sexton's article titled "It takes a village to create a Darth Vader" My point being that this could have been easily avoided if someone did something to stop him and give the kid some therapy in the first place. There was ample warnings but noone did anything b/c they were being chocked with being PC. Its disgusting. Great article Barefoot. bye
Informative and interesting. Debaters and clickers arrive.
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