Re: RAT COLUMBINE

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

--- josh@whirl-i-gig.com wrote:
> I don't know, Aileen, Revolution of the Goths? 
> Revenge of the Nerds?  This
> seems immature and reductive to me.  

> Do you really think this can all be reduced to "high
> school sucks" and
> "boys will be boys"?
> 
> I don't.
> 
> Josh Furst
 
 
Me neither.  And I find the proposition nauseating. 
As someone who got the shit kicked out of me by a jock
in high school, and still has the scars to show for
it, I can find nothing even vaguely heroic, or even
"tragically misguided", in what those two boys did.  

Let's not forget that in addition to the "jocks" they
targeted-- with the seeming implication that the
targets were somehow justified-- they also singled out
black kids.  In other words, they went after their
worst fears.  Nothing wrong with that except in order
to conquer your fears, you gotta put down the shotgun.


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