Tuesday, April 17, 2007

A example of Internet Mob Mentality after Virginia Tech shooting

The internet can be a scary place. I will not even start with why the news media identified the shooter as a tall "Asian man", as if that is some sort of indictment. Would they have have a Latino man, a Southern man, a Middle Eatern looking man? Well.. maybe they would in our American culture where everything is based on race.

But the internet MOBism jumped on this clue and indicted an Asian student who loves guns, Wayne Chiang. Everyone on the internet thinks that they are a detective, and he did recently break up with his amazing looking gf, loved guns, and lived in a dorm.

He received death threats (even though if he were the killer, he would already have been dead)

But now the murderer is identified as the Senior English major, Cho Seung-Hui or Seung Hui Cho. Now everyone will blame Koreans or Korean culture. Also the news media has emphasized that he is an immigrant, a permanent resident alien; I suppose this is a secret code that means that American society, American gun laws, and the fear of mental illness are not to blame. Rather it is the immigrant culture that is to blame. And so it goes. In terms of race in the past week, first there was Duke (white vs black), Imus (jerk vs black), and the spokesmodels of Jesse Jackson (Hymietown Jew York City), and Al Sharpton (get white interloper retailers out of Harlem neighborhoods)...., and now Virginia Tech.

I think I will just watch cartoons here in DC, and turn off the news

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1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well said.

4:25 AM  

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