Just when I thought that as bad as some of the media coverage of Virgina Tech has been, at least they haven’t been getting themselves worked up over some imaginary backlash against Asian students. Surely they know, that to the extent the public has a view on Asians at all it’s that they tend to take academic studies seriously and are less likely to be in prison. Mercifully, up to now they haven’t tried to make the story about how racist America is or subjected us to condescending lectures to not go on pogroms, as if that were a danger.
But now MSNBC decides it’s time to worry about the backlash. Sigh.
sad a predictable, just like most media content.
Yeah, they’re worried about a hypothetical backlash, not an actual one taking place. This is a non-story about a non-event.
Backlash, my ass, after 9/11 there was no backlash against Muslims here. I realize the lefty MSM wishes and prays for it to advance their anti-white prejudices, but, it isn’t going to happen.
Would this qualify then as the backlash against the backlash?
My head hurts.
“If it bleeds, it leads” and after you’ve led with it and it still has legs, milk it dry. Heartless, unethical, morally-bankrupt capitalism…I don’t see it as a left-right issue.
I’m not against capitalism…this is just the logical boundary that pure capitalism, freed from its shackles of ethics and morals, can lead to.
Sickening.
OK, I’m not sure if I can get away with saying this because of the sensitivities surrounding my past. (Back in the day, I knew guys who had more ears than EF Hutton.)
But really, the Koreans should celebrate their new status as a dangerous group who should be feared.
One of the reasons that the lefties constantely scream at Bush and America and give Islamic Nazis a pass is that Bush and America will not hurt them.
It’s a little like the Stockholm Syndrome. If one parent is abusing a kid and the other is not, and the parents have been absent from the child’s life for a while, when they return the kid will often run to the abusive parent. It’s simple enough. He’s afraid of that parent and wishes to curry favor.
In the Middle East, there is a devil cult called the Yazdeks (sp?) who believe in Jesus and Satan. They meet in caverns and have covert rituals directed at Satan.
They figure Jesus is a nice guy, so Satan is the one you have to placate.
Now that the Koreans have demonstrated that they can take out a city block, the lefties will automatically start screaming at Bush and America, and start slobbering all over the Koreans because they’ll hope that if they slobber enough the Koreans won’t hurt them.
My view about all these killers is “doom on you.” Let God sort ’em out.
Eeyore,
“”If it bleeds, it leads” and after you’ve led with it and it still has legs, milk it dry. Heartless, unethical, morally-bankrupt capitalism…I don’t see it as a left-right issue.”
I’d believe that if I saw more stories milking it from a right-wing perspective.
Instead of a backlash, how about the breakdown of the Korean-American family or about the discrimination Koreans face due to affirmative action programs. Just brainstormin’.
Hadn’t considered a backlash actually until now. Nothing worse than a bunch of “community leaders” trying to gain some cultural leverage and public sympathies from a terrible tragedy that had nothing to do with them.
Killer Cho was arguably insane and certainly mentally disturbed.
If I was to hurl a critcism somebody’s way, it would not be at Cho, but at the opportunists who apparently have no moral boundaries.
These guys could give a lesson to Al Sharpton. (or least have taken a few from him)
Rubbish! I never met a Korean I didn’t like! In this part of Toronto where I perch, my Korean neighbours are the most civilized people here.
(Too bad, about the rest of ’em.)
It’s confounding, especially considering the “backlash” rate against American Muslims after 9-11 was a predictable zero…
What’s really funny is watching you tin-foiled hat Koolaid drinkers hold back your “gook/commie” cracks like the little self loathing right wing PC bastards that you are. You’re not making Korean cracks cuz yer PC. Let’s face it, self loathing dorks like you want to blame foreigners. But you’re holding yourselves back. (For some reason.)
C’mon, let go. Guns don’t kill people, resident aliens do. Shout from the rooftops!! Or is that not “proper?” Is that too PC? You can feel it inside you. (Slanty eyed bastards) C’mon say it. The opposite might come true if you don’t,. i.e., ideology had nothing to do with it.
Hardly likely that.
sportdork
Bigotry is unacceptable. Why are you stereotyping the people here? It sounds like hate speech. It is creating a hostile climate.
I’d say that those Americans who blame Koreans should take into consideration that this young man has lived in the United States for many years. He may have been indoctrinated more by American culture than Korean, I’d guess.
But, it’s never my fault. It must be someone else’s. And, on and on.
Mike in White Rock,
That’s the point. Just where are the people blaming Koreans?
It’s a made up backlash by a media hungry to generate more division.
Those who are being shot at, should be able to shoot back!
Let’s Make America a ‘Sad-Free Zone’! by Ann Coulter (More by this author)
Posted: 04/18/2007
From the attacks of 9/11 to Monday’s school shooting, after every mass murder there is an overwhelming urge to “do something” to prevent a similar attack.
But since Adam ate the apple and let evil into the world, deranged individuals have existed.
Most of the time they can’t be locked up until it’s too late. It’s not against the law to be crazy — in some jurisdictions it actually makes you more viable as a candidate for public office.
It’s certainly not against the law to be an unsociable loner. If it were, Ralph Nader would be behind bars right now, where he belongs. Mass murder is often the first serious crime unbalanced individuals are caught committing — as appears to be in the case of the Virginia Tech shooter.
The best we can do is enact policies that will reduce the death toll when these acts of carnage occur, as they will in a free and open society of 300 million people, most of whom have cable TV.
Only one policy has ever been shown to deter mass murder: concealed-carry laws. In a comprehensive study of all public, multiple-shooting incidents in America between 1977 and 1999, the inestimable economists John Lott and Bill Landes found that concealed-carry laws were the only laws that had any beneficial effect.
And the effect was not insignificant. States that allowed citizens to carry concealed handguns reduced multiple-shooting attacks by 60 percent and reduced the death and injury from these attacks by nearly 80 percent.
Apparently, even crazy people prefer targets that can’t shoot back. The reason schools are consistently popular targets for mass murderers is precisely because of all the idiotic “Gun-Free School Zone” laws.
From the people who brought you “zero tolerance,” I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?
It isn’t the angst of adolescence. Plenty of school shootings have been committed by adults with absolutely no reason to be at the school, such as Laurie Dann, who shot up the Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Ill., in 1988; Patrick Purdy, who opened fire on children at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, Calif., in 1989; and Charles Carl Roberts, who murdered five schoolgirls at an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pa., last year.
Oh by the way, the other major “Gun-Free Zone” in America is the post office.
But instantly, on the day of the shooting at Virginia Tech, the media were already promoting gun control and pre-emptively denouncing right-wingers who point out that gun control enables murderers rather than stopping them. Liberals get to lobby for gun control, but we’re disallowed from arguing back. That’s how good their arguments are. They’re that good.
Needless to say, Virginia Tech is a Gun-Free School Zone — at least until last Monday. The gunman must not have known. Imagine his embarrassment! Perhaps there should be signs.
Virginia Tech even prohibits students with concealed-carry permits from carrying their guns on campus. Last year, the school disciplined a student for carrying a gun on campus, despite his lawful concealed-carry permit. If only someone like that had been in Norris Hall on Monday, this massacre could have been ended a lot sooner.
But last January, the Virginia General Assembly shot down a bill that would have prevented universities like Virginia Tech from giving sanctuary to mass murderers on college campuses in Virginia by disarming students with concealed-carry permits valid in the rest of the state.
Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker praised the legislature for allowing the school to disarm lawful gun owners on the faculty and student body, thereby surrendering every college campus in the state to deranged mass murderers, saying: “I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.”
Others disagreed. Writing last year about another dangerous killer who had been loose on the Virginia Tech campus, graduate student Jonathan McGlumphy wrote: “Is it not obvious that all students, faculty and staff would have been safer if (concealed handgun permit) holders were not banned from carrying their weapons on campus?”
If it wasn’t obvious then, it is now.
My god are the media ever racist. Can’t they see past this killer’s ethnic origin? When I saw a picture of this killer, my first thought was ‘what a loser’. Not ‘what a Korean loser’, but what a l-o-s-e-r.
The only backlash I see is a media backlash – a ‘high-tech lynching’ of Koreans by the press.
What could be scarier then a convoy of tv satellite vans pulling up outside of your local korean church and asking you if you feel worried because one of ‘you people’ shot up a university?
To be fair to MSNBC, the best quote was at the end:
John Cho’s Korean Times newspaper…is among the institutions trying to counter negative perceptions of the community. But even as Cho tries to explain the typecasting, he is aware of the irony. “What’s worrying is that if a white person had done this,” he muses, “no one would call up the white community and ask if they were going to be stereotyped.”
Robert,
Fantastic observation. Yet another case of a bunch of narcissists projecting their own racism onto others in a vain attempt to appear superior. Like sportdork above.
Ace,
What is even more ironic than that is that virtually noone would be defending the white community from the onslaught of a backlash generated by the MSM either.
I blame it on political correctness and the fear of offending someone if one takes action of any kind. Don’t stare at muslims, the might get offended, don’t report weird actions by anyone, the ACLU will get you, now you can’t even stare at apes at the london zoo. Had a student killed this idiot, or injured him, can you imagine the outcries from the media and aclu lawyers. He/she would be in more trouble than the shooter. Picking on a minority, jumping to conclusions and on and on. Get rid of political correctness and start a movement that encourages, when a bad person does a bad thing, ignore his/her color, sex, racial profile, age, and punish the hell out of them. Of course, a lot of lawyers and judges would have to change their attitude, and a lot of lobbyists would be out of work. Start thinking of the victims first and the bad person last. That bad person is not a victim, as much as certain political ideologies want to pretend they are.
It’ll most likely be a non-issue. Cho is already being fingered as a psychopath…on the mainstream media, no less. Because of this categorization, any backlash, if there is one, won’t have legs. There’s a much greter risk of a backlash against psychopaths (or “sickos”) developing.
Interesting to know how many lobby groups are out there, though.
Lookie here … this mass murder was the work of a sick person and there is nothing to be said but that it’s horrible. Muslims do this sort of thing almost daily. Most just shrug and give them a pass. Go figure.
However, perhaps you are missing the biggest backlash of all.
It’s the global backlash against white people.
Particularly, western democratic capitalist white people.
I don’t get it, but it certainly is evident that this is the happening. The USA cannot do anything anymore without being vilified by literally everyone on the planet.
We don’t seem to fit in anywhere. It doesn’t matter how good and helpful we try to be to the rest of the world, we are envied because we happened to (at least for a time in our history) be smarter and better organized than the rest of the world.
We are now the victims of a pathological envy by the rest of the world and that includes about half of our own who are, for some reason, ashamed or embarrassed to be part of a successful culture and race … and is led largely by the MSM and it’s leftist fans.
I don’t know how this will shake down, but it’s getting uglier by the day.
I feel like humanity is trapped in the final crescendo of the Beatle song “A day in the life”. That song ends with a crashing and powerful piano chord.
I am waiting for that piano chord.
The show The Verdict just had an interview with an Asian-American who faced a Web backlash because he fit all five points on the killer’s description. The ironic part of the backlash is that the fellow is a law-abiding, Second Amendment patriot!
So, the only post-warning evidence of a backlash landed on the (virtual) shoulders of a NRA type. His name’s Wayne Chiang, and the Free Republic’s has losts of posts below the news item about him.
Ismail Ax,….
Earlier you said given 24 Hours the CBC would be blaming Bush for the rampage! Within 2 hours I pointed out that MSNBC’s Keith Olberman already had!
If you want to find the very worst of media behaviour on the tube and want it fast you can rely on MSNBC to be first with the worst.
If you can wait a day or two and like to be reminded frequently you can get what you want on CNN.
CBC is really a crap shoot …… you may not get anything at all.
“It doesn’t matter how good and helpful we try to be to the rest of the world, we are envied because we happened to (at least for a time in our history) be smarter and better organized than the rest of the world.”
Yanni, what is needed is perhaps some advice from the dog whisperer. He always says you have to show the dog who is the boss, otherwise he’ll think he is. Be too nice to him and he’ll walk all over you. This works in foreign policy too!
you can’t legislate lunacy, nobody knows when the guy next door is gonna go postal
the west wasnt won with a registered gun .
but it appears the east lost something with one.
Daniel M Ryan at 10:48pm said. . .
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The show The Verdict just had an interview with an Asian-American who faced a Web backlash because he fit all five points on the killer’s description. The ironic part of the backlash is that the fellow is a law-abiding, Second Amendment patriot!**
Missed Point:
The ironic part is this hoarding of rage and resentment and then the final snap is the expression of a severe illness.
It has in the past, and will in future happen regardless of race or heritage.
This time it happened to a Korean.
There is no reason for even making mention of the heritage of the sick person, much less taking part in a backlash.
If his illness had been small pox or polio, there would have been no backlash. = TG
Just for a little perspective nearly 300 Iraqis turned into corposes on Wed alone.
an american soldier commits a crime in south korea and 10,000 koreans demonstrate. americans won’t
Stick the camera in the goo…play the shock for acouple of bucks…then play the emotional edge and cry and wring your hands with the victims…then point fingers at every and sundry demons which meet your agendas…whip up hysteria…. find demons where none exist…get the mob running after ghosts…lie, mislead, misdirect and misinform…stir up trouble and capitalize on it.
What has really changed with the media or politics from the days of HL Mencken or WR Hurst?….the iconoclast and the manipulator find succor in the swirling votex of fact and fantasy we call the corporate North American media.
Tragedy brings out the best in common people but the worst in media ….and I have been literally toxified with the ideological and political axes being ground by the Canadian media in the wake of this week’s mass murder….it gave creedence to my opinion where I consider the Canadian GTA MSM to be the world’s worst news entity in selective reporting and manipulative analysis.
Listening to the spew from CBCNW was like experiencing a cold war psy-ops indoctrination session…we really have to get a handle on the NGO/Lobbist axe grinders who have roosted in the public broadcast system…. what do we need to rid our national public broadcaster of this infection?….a corporate Joe McArthy or a political Saint Patrick with carte blanch power to make the CBC a balanced factual public news source.
What do y’all think of the “Ismail Ax” post below, now that we see that the killer compares himself to Jesus Christ in his video?
For the over-the-top file on the massacre: a story that relates how much Cho Seung-Hui was picked on in school.
Eventually, some unrefined fellow is going to pipe up with the observation “if there was anyone who deserved it,…”
A followup item to the above: Cho Seung-Hui’s grandfather says that Cho deserved to die.