I’ve been following the VT massacre with a lot more concern that I thought I would…even more than I followed the Columbine tragedy in Colorado when it happened some years back.
Maybe it’s because now, as a university student, imagining a rampage on campus sends me chills right down to my bones.
This isn’t the best of time to bring this up, but I couldn’t help but notice how suddenly people are quietly staring accusingly at South Korea solely because the gunman was a native from that country. Cho had been brought up in the States. He had a PR status there. What difference does it make that he’s Asian? The environment which turned him into a murderer was, for the most part of his years, set in the States. It may have began while he was still toddling about in South Korea, but I don’t understand why the Koreans have to make an apology for someone who hasn’t been in the country since 1992. No one should apologise for anything; Cho does not represent the Korean people, nor did they do anything to condition him into the man he became.
Another thing of interest is how it was reported here by NBC that Cho had signed off as "Ismail Ax". Ismail, as we all know, is a predominant Muslim name. In actual fact, the correct spelling of what he had written can be seen here.
Ishmael. As in, Moby "call-me-Ishmael" Dick Ishmael. It makes sense, since Cho was an English major.
You gotta love the American media for seeing opportunity to stir up Islamophobia all over again.
Enough said here.
there was a list of the victims and all of them had such potentials!
