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[Tylergal]

Was Cho taught to hate?
James Lewis
Yes, I know. Tens of thousands of ordinary college students are lonely, full of rage, lost and frustrated. A few percent are psychotically disturbed, and some of them can kill. Our big factory colleges are alienating. Take millions of adolescents, and at any time there are bound to be quite a few confused and seething souls walking loose. Just visit downtown in any American or European city, and you can see all the lost and disturbed living in their private hells. And no, that doesn't excuse executing thirty-two innocents.

Still, I wonder --- was Cho taught to hate? Whatever he learned in his classes --- did it enable him to rage at his host country, to hate the students he envied so murderously? Was he subtly encouraged to aggrandize himself by destroying others? Was his pathology enabled by the PC university? Or to ask the question differently --- was Cho ever taught to respect others, to admire the good things about his host country, and to discipline himself to build a positive life?

And that answer is readily available on the websites of Cho's English Department at Virginia Tech. This is a wonder world of PC weirdness. English studies at VT are a post-modern Disney World in which nihilism, moral and sexual boundary breaking, and fantasies of Marxist revolutionary violence are celebrated. They show up in a lot of faculty writing. Not by all the faculty, but probably by more than half.

Just check out their websites.

I wonder if Cho took the senior seminar by Professor Knapp, on "The self-justifying criminal in literature." Because he certainly learned to be a self-justifying criminal. Or whether he sat in courses with Nikki Giovanni, using her famous self-glorifying book, "The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni (2003)". Maybe he read Professor Bernice Hausman's "Changing Sex: Transsexualism, technology, and the idea of gender" --- just the thing for a disoriented young male suffering from massive culture shock on the hypersexual American campus.  And even more gender-bending from Professor Paul Heilker, who wrote "Textual Androgyny, the Rhetoric of the Essay, and the Politics of Identity in Composition (or The Struggle to Be a Girly-Man in a World of Gladiator Pumpitude)." Or the Lesbian love stories of Professor Matthew Vollmer. Yup, that's just what this student needs. These trophee "art works" are all advertised on the English Department faculty websites.

Or maybe Cho was assigned Professor Lisa Norris' prize-winning book, Toy Guns, featured on her web site. The book reviewers wrote

    "All ten stories in this disturbing collection revolve around Americans' passionate devotion to guns, gun-toting, sexually-tinged violence, and the womanly pursuit of power and dignity."  [....]
    "In each wrenching story, we see an America out of control, in love with war...."

I don't know any  Americans who are in love with war, but that is the picture Cho got from his teachers. Having spent the last 14 years as a resident alien in the school system, he could know nothing else.

And then there is the big Marxist website from Professor Brizee, all in fiery red against pitch black, showing old, mass-murder-inspiring Karl flanked by two raised fists. It celebrates revolutionary violence and hate for capitalist America (which is paying for Cho's education). "Critical Social Theory" --- the euphemism for PoMo (Post Modern) Marxism --- is a big part of English teaching at VT.  The Marxist page links prominently to the British Socialist Worker's Party, which is currently leading the charge for Islamic fascism through such creatures as George Galloway.

And, talking about Islamist ideas, there is Professor Carter-Tod, who wrote a report about " "Treatment of Arab American, Muslums and Seiks (sic) Post 911," for the US Civil Rights Commission.    The racial grievance industry is alive and growing at VT.

Post-modernism, with its hatred for reason, is another big theme at the VT English Department. Professor James Collier boasts  about his book, Philosophy, Rhetoric and the End of Knowledge: A New Beginning for Science and Technology Studies,  But "the end of knowledge" is the beginning of ignorance.

And of course there is the "diversity" crowd, diversity being a very well-funded program at ole' guilt-tripping VT. There's Professor Carlos Evia, who describes himself as  "...soy director de la Comisión de Igualdad y Diversidad en Virginia Tech." Or in English, "I am also chair of the Virginia Tech Commission on Equal Opportunity and Diversity." There's "research" in "Feminist science fiction" and "The comic strip" from Professor Susan C. Allender-Hagedorn. Scratching racial and gender wounds until they bleed is a big preoccupation at VT. What's a kid from South Korea to think?

The question I have is: Are university faculty doing their jobs? At one time college teachers were understood to have a parental role. Take a look at the hiring and promotion criteria for Eng at VT, and you see what their current values are. Acting in loco parentis, with the care, protectiveness, and alertness for trouble among young people is the last thing on their minds. They are there to do "research," to act like fake revolutionaries, and to stir up  young people to go out and revolt society. Well, somebody just did.

I'm sorry but VT English doesn't look like a place that gives lost and angry adolescents the essential boundaries for civilized behavior. In fact, in this perversely disorienting PoMo world, the very words "civilized behavior" are ridiculed  --- at least until somebody starts to shoot students, and then it's too late. A young culture-shocked adolescent can expect no firm guidance here. But we know that already.

What's the English Department's official frontpage reaction to the murder of thirty-two students just a few days ago? Here it is.

        "We do not understand this tragedy 


        We know we did nothing to deserve it

        But neither does a child in Africa 


        Dying of AIDS

        Neither does the baby elephant watching his community 


        Be devastated for ivory 


        ...    Neither does the Mexican child looking 


        For fresh water

        ... Neither does the Appalachian infant killed 


        By a boulder 


        Dislodged

        Because the land was destabilized"

In other words: We didn't do nuthin.' It ain't our fault. It's greedy capitalism's fault. We don't teach civilized behavior, the value of reason, the cultural foundations of Western thought. We teach adolescent rage, because that's how we make a living. We do narcissistic "research" in Marxist analysis of American brutal capitalism. We're good people. See how much we care about AIDS in Africa. Don't blame us. We ain't responsible.

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TY Tyler for posting this.

[LouiseVargas]

Dear Tyler,

I do not believe Cho's parents taught him to hate. They came to Virginia and tried to do their very best for their children. They got a dry cleaning business and made enough money for Cho's sister's Sun-Kyung to graduate from Princeton in 2004. Then they sent Cho to VT. It seems to me they wanted the best for Cho and worked their asses off to make enough money to send the kids to the best universities.  

Almost all immigrants who come to the US with young children have a plan in place to work hard to get their kids educated so that they can be successful in America. Education is the key to a better life. They didn't know that Sun-Kyung's success would not carry over to their son.

I read that Cho's mama was asked what was wrong with him, at an early age, because he didn't talk. She said he is autistic, but I feel that is the excuse she gave to silence the questions. I think Cho's parents were so confused and maybe did not know what resources were available to help him. They were not able to give him appropriate guidance. When they realized he was not acting right, they tried to ignore it. Working full time, struggling to make a living to support the kids, parents can get worn out.

I understand they have talked to the media today for the first time and they said they are clueless.

[nonesuche]

oh I have to disagree here, in fact Cho's parents were called into middle school when it was discovered Cho was keeping a "death list" with student's names????? This is a high school in a suburb of DC and it's my understanding Cho was suspended at that time for this list. I feel absolutely sure his family was told he needed counseling and likely by more than one official at this school. The signs were clearly there. Unfortunately records in middle school do not transfer with college applications so VT had no opportunity to know this kid was boiling and seething underneath with so much vivid hatred.

Although I question how VT handled this I do think the english department there tried to save Cho, with private tutoring and advising him he needed counseling? If one is an adult at 18 then at what point did Cho become responsible for his own welfare???? He clearly turned his back on every hand extended to him to help.

His sister is also a Princeton grad and I find it unbelievable she could not be the voice of reason for her family, even be the person to contact and ask for help if the parents were so darn helpless. Of course they were not so helpless they could not establish a business, communicate with a variety of customers, employ workers, plus navigate all employer and tax regulation and reporting?

I think the very fact this family had their statement released via their daughter's voice is yet one more indication that these parents have hidden from their responsibility to ensure their son was not a threat to others.

My daughter's dear friend is of Asian descent and her family did not immigrate here from Korea until she was 6. She told my daughter on Thursday how horrified her family is that this person Cho could represent their country and their people. So now she is ashamed and hurt as well. Her mother to this day speaks broken english yet she somehow navigated our school and worked with their teachers and administrators for I saw she and her husband do so. Their children are also Duke grads so it can be done and I think it's all dependent upon the parental commitment to their own responsiblities at times.

[Anna]

Louise,
Tyler's article is suggesting that it was the university that taught the hate with all that PC gobbledy gook they offer.

And I do have to wonder if the family could not have done something long before this as Nonesuche points out.  I guess they could not face how violent he had become.

If being a Gun Free Zone is the way to go I have to wonder why the government buildings just a couple of hours away in D.C. are manned by guards with what looks like elephant guns.  You'd think they would just have signs that pronounce them a gun free zone instead.  I wonder how many liberals have a sign in their front yards proclaiming their home to be gun free?  That's a wonderful idea and I hope all of them will do just that.  Maybe then we will not see such a gungrab try to disarm honest law abiding citizens who only want to protect themselves from murderous criminals.

But then it seems that is someone is angry enough, they have every right to kill innocents according to the skewed fuzzy logic from the left.

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[LouiseVargas]

Anna,

Thank you for your response. And I compliment you on your cute avatar today.

I didn't know Cho's parents were called to the middle school regarding his writings and were told he needed counseling, So I do agree with you, Anna, that the parents were well warned and did nothing. It is harder to do something than to do nothing.