For people to focus on anything other than the fact that it was a horrible, awful tragedy only makes it more of a tragedy. His race doesn’t lessen or increase the impact of what he did. It was awful and would be equally as awful, evil, and upsetting if he was white, if he was black, if he was green with yellow stripes.
Evil and disturbed will always be evil and disturbed and that’s all there is to it.
My heart and prayers go out to all those who lost a loved one in that tragedy.
When this tragedy happened, it didn’t even dawn me to focus on the fact the shooter was Asian. To me, that’s not the point. People’s lives were lost in a horrible act of violence. An evil hateful person blamed everyone else for his problems and took it out on innocent people. Doesn’t matter what he looked like, or even that it was a “he”. It was a senseless act.
What makes this tragedy (and it is a tragedy) more remarkable than the homicide bombings of innocent men, women and children in the public gathering places in Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Indonesia, Israel and Chechnya? Because it happened in the USA? Watch for the next year as it will be used to question the value of our citizens’ rights. I think that the race of the berserker is unimportant. Evil knows no race, it respects no family or country. It happens and as the world’s population grows so will the faces of evil. Our access to immediate, often unverified sensationalism will magnify it way out of proportion. Just take comfort in this: mankind is by and large good, irrespective of race creed or other characteristics. There will always be people who seek to gain from the acts of the few evil ones either politically or financially. Just keep your head and think before being swept away.
Now I know why I spend all my time at work. I don’t have to watch t.v. oh wait I don’t do that when I am home. however in saying this guy was Korean does not seem a statement of race but an attempt to say an “American” did not do it. Not racial diversity but the relief felt by many Americans in that it was a “foreigner”. It is an unconscious safety message. It was not my neighbor but someone from across the sea. It is the historical blame game.
A crazy person is a crazy person. What apalls me is the ease of anyone owning assult guns and especially someone who has been known to have mental problems.
Wow.
She really is great.
For people to focus on anything other than the fact that it was a horrible, awful tragedy only makes it more of a tragedy. His race doesn’t lessen or increase the impact of what he did. It was awful and would be equally as awful, evil, and upsetting if he was white, if he was black, if he was green with yellow stripes.
Evil and disturbed will always be evil and disturbed and that’s all there is to it.
My heart and prayers go out to all those who lost a loved one in that tragedy.
Wise words well said… and hits very close to home.
When this tragedy happened, it didn’t even dawn me to focus on the fact the shooter was Asian. To me, that’s not the point. People’s lives were lost in a horrible act of violence. An evil hateful person blamed everyone else for his problems and took it out on innocent people. Doesn’t matter what he looked like, or even that it was a “he”. It was a senseless act.
What makes this tragedy (and it is a tragedy) more remarkable than the homicide bombings of innocent men, women and children in the public gathering places in Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Indonesia, Israel and Chechnya? Because it happened in the USA? Watch for the next year as it will be used to question the value of our citizens’ rights. I think that the race of the berserker is unimportant. Evil knows no race, it respects no family or country. It happens and as the world’s population grows so will the faces of evil. Our access to immediate, often unverified sensationalism will magnify it way out of proportion. Just take comfort in this: mankind is by and large good, irrespective of race creed or other characteristics. There will always be people who seek to gain from the acts of the few evil ones either politically or financially. Just keep your head and think before being swept away.
Now I know why I spend all my time at work. I don’t have to watch t.v. oh wait I don’t do that when I am home. however in saying this guy was Korean does not seem a statement of race but an attempt to say an “American” did not do it. Not racial diversity but the relief felt by many Americans in that it was a “foreigner”. It is an unconscious safety message. It was not my neighbor but someone from across the sea. It is the historical blame game.
well said
A crazy person is a crazy person. What apalls me is the ease of anyone owning assult guns and especially someone who has been known to have mental problems.
Loved this one Meljean, great reference, she is insightful and articulate and mirrors my own sentiments at times.