April 18th, 2007 the virginia tech

First, let me be clear. The massacre at Virginia Tech by the gunman who later shot himself is a big tragedy. I also sympathize with the sadness of many of the deads’ family members and friends.

That being sad, I am also pissed off by the amount of superficial attention this story is getting. First, there are the news networks covering it ad nauseum. But I’ve lost faith in the news networks long time ago -they’ll do anything for ratings. But what about the call by my college’s president for a moment of silence at 2 PM today? Does this moment of silence do anything? If anything, it is a self-congratulatory event put together to make ourselves feel better by fooling ourselves into thinking that we actually do care. Let’s face it – most people don’t genuinely care, they just want to look like they care. When people say “Did you hear about that?” “Yeh, it’s so sad..” What a load of pretentious bull shit. It’s worse than gossip.

Do people know how many people are killed everyday in Iraq? Darfur? 30 people getting popped off in America is nothing. It’s a tragedy but there are worse tragedies happening around the world every day. Why don’t Americans hold moment of silences for hundreds of innocent Iraqis and American Troops getting killed each day? Let the community of Virginia Tech mourn and grieve. Leave them alone. It’s nobody else’s business.

So please, for the sake of all of us, stop making facebook groups. Stop making murals. Stop talking about it. Stop saying “I’m so sad.” If you really do care about atrocities, you might as well fly over to Darfur and try to stop the much bigger tragedy going on there. If I find another pretentious nuthead spewing superficial maudlin crap I am going to throw up.