In case you were wondering who’s to blame for the Virginia Tech massacre, I’ve created a list this morning to keep track. Feel free to send in any that I’ve missed.
Update:
The list keeps on growing and has 45 46 47 49 51 55 56 57 58 different items at the moment. Thanks to everyone who is sending me more links to add to the list.
Update 2:
The list now stands at 60 and I’m going to stop keeping track. Not for lack of finding more blame but because I don’t think it will ever end. Thanks to everyone who sent in links and everybody who commented and linked to the list.
Update 3:
People keep sending me more articles with different scapegoats so I might as well append them to the bottom of the list. The list now has 67 73 items pointing fingers in every direction.
It’s the fault of violent video games.
It’s the fault of movies.
It’s that no other students were armed.
It’s the cowardly students who didn’t rush the shooter.
It’s the first victim’s fault.
It’s secularism’s fault.
It’s the Muslims’ and/or foreigners’ fault.
It’s the Atheists’ fault.
It’s the fault of the colleges and how they coddle their students.
It’s society’s fault.
It’s the Second Amendment’s fault.
It’s the bureaucracy’s fault.
It’s the fault of Roanoke Firearms, where he bought the gun.
It’s the authorities’ fault.
It’s the Liberals’ fault.
It’s pedophilia, homosexual couplings and adulterous behavior’s fault. (Not sure if he means all at the same time or separately.
It’s capitalism’s fault.
It’s the fault of psychiatric drugs.
It’s the Devil’s fault.
It’s South Korea’s fault.
It’s the hippies’ fault. (Nobody’s blaming the Yippies yet)
It’s the media and culture’s fault.
It’s the murderer’s fault.
It’s the legal system’s fault.
It’s the fault of the Virginia Tech officials.
It’s the fault of the Chinese.
It’s the fault of this blogger who happens to be asian, likes guns and who recently broke up with his girlfriend.
It’s Simon Cowell’s fault.
It’s Bill Gates’ fault.
It’s the fault of trauma induced mind control by a military industrial complex.
It’s the killer’s parents’ and/or gun makers’ fault.
It’s the fault that colleges have co-ed dorms and/or students who major in English.
It’s a lack of funding for mental health services’ fault.
It’s the GOP’s fault.
It’s the Democrats’ fault.
It’s NBC’s fault.
It’s Autism’s fault.
It’s al Jazeera or Palestinian TV’s fault.
It’s the fault of pro-choice doctors.
It’s Collective Soul’s fault.
It’s the fault of professors who survived the Holocaust and are not armed to the teeth.
It’s Markos from the Daily Kos’ fault.
It’s the bullies’ fault.
It’s the Nanjing Anti-African riots’ fault and/or the fault of those in interracial relationships.
It’s the fault of our culture’s all-consuming desire for celebrity.
It’s fault of the Europeanization or nannyization of American behavior.
It’s Charlton Heston’s fault.
It’s the fault of immigration and/or asians.
It’s evil’s fault.
It’s W’s fault.
It’s the fault of vaccines.
It’s the fault that schools teach that the theory of evolution is fact.
It’s the fault of the CIA for training the killer as a mind-controlled assassin.
It’s the fault of stage weapons used in school plays.
It’s the fault of the classes where Cho was taught to hate.
It’s the school’s architecture’s fault.
It’s the fault of those who voted for Ralph Nader.
It’s the fault of Bill Clinton, internet pornography, free speech, condoms, abortions, and lack of prayer and bibles in schools.
It’s that Cho didn’t hook up enough.
It’s the fault of the Jews.
It’s the ACLU’s fault.
It’s the fault of media glorification.
It’s the fault of Americans.
It’s the fault of America’s youth mentality.
It’s the fault of big business.
It’s the fault of college admissions.
It’s the fault of his roomates for being too politically correct.
It’s the fault of the psychiatrist who let Cho get away.
It’s the fault of progressive education.
It’s the fault of white women.
It’s the ideology of diversity’s fault.
It’s Cho’s High School’s fault.
It’s Dateline’s fault.
Comments
161 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.france
if jamie oliver stopped cooking crap cho wouldnt have been so depressed
you know, it really is all media propoganda. the idea of making these spree-killers out as celebrities is most likely true, but in all honesty, our generation is being portrayed as savage murdurers. everyone is calling US the enemy and saying OUR culture is destructive (TV, video games, movies).
heres the real kicker though:
OUR GENERATION IS THE LEAST VIOLENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
forget what you hear from Michael Moore and those douchebag ministers claiming “homosexual themes” are killing our morales; the only place where we ARE the most violent is in teen/twenty-something SUICIDE.
why suicide?
well, how else are we to get rid of the “enemy”
the media has created out of us?*
*its ironic; killing yourself is not the answer kids.
It’s the goth’s fault. -_-’
http://godhatesgoths.com/_wsn/page2.html
it’s patriarchy’s fault
my bad
this is fun but it belittles the truth – just like columbine and 911, VA Tech was another government operation engineered to strike fear into the hearts of the cattle (er, i mean, citizens) of this nation so that the “government” can take away more of our rights and liberties. this is so f*cking obvious it makes me sick that people are playing the blame game here.
Two questions, J. a) How is this conspiracy “so fucking obvious”? b) Are you sure it wasn’t aliens?
Definately his mums fault
U people r crazy!!!!!
Well, putting it into a giant list with nonsense like video games and movies doesn’t take away from the fact that the shooting could have been stopped if students, or at the very least, professors were armed.
This list is almost meant to mock the idea that anything can be done to prevent shootings. Obviously it’s the shooter’s fault and his alone, but at the same time, Student A died because Student A didn’t protect himself.
This blame-everything hoopla has apparently led some people to believe that anytime a possible deterrent is suggested, the person suggesting it is playing 20/20 hindsight, and just needs to leave everything to the proper authorities–in most cases, police. Fact is, things can be done to stop shootings. That most of the attempted blame is unsubstantiable conjecture doesn’t detract from legitimate complaints.