Iraqi students show support for VA

[Jerry_111]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/virginia_tech_iraq;_ylt=ArfY.iAMcsZGYF50jyYCMa0DW7oF

In the meantime, students and teachers have been killed left and right over the past few years.

 

[Stigmata]

Iraqi students show support for single school shooting in USA.

American students show indifference towards all Iraqi suicide bombings, military attacks, and generic shootings on a daily basis.

 

[Kula Meenur]

Iraqi students show support for single school shooting in USA.

American students show indifference towards all Iraqi suicide bombings, military attacks, and generic shootings on a daily basis.

Oh that was great... :E

i lol'ed very loudly

 

[NeptuneUK]

I didn't find it very humorous

 

[VirusType2]

Iraqi students show support for single school shooting in USA.

American students show indifference towards all Iraqi suicide bombings, military attacks, and generic shootings on a daily basis.

You make a good point.

There are also Americans that show indiffernce about the VT shooting, and about our own American soldiers being killed by the dozen daily though. It goes both ways. I'm sure there are Iraqi's that don't care about the VT victims either.


Not everybody though. I cry when I am shown the truth. Real in your face information about what is going on there. The fact is, I don't think very many Americans even know the truth. If they hear anything, they hear statistics, and civilians aren't given names or any kind of identity, and rarely mentioned. When you hear "6 died in Iraq today" and that is the extent of the detail, it's considerably less moving than losing someone you knew, of course.

 

[cheddarrr]

you kinda have to look at it like this.. when people die that you expected to die or atleast have a much greater chance or dieing (ie: war, cancer, ect) your not nearly as shaken up as somthing like a school shooting.. or a car accident.

maybe thats just me though. working at a news station, i see this stuff every day and you can get pretty numb to most of it. which is sick in a way.

 

[alehm]

Iraqi students show support for single school shooting in USA.

American students show indifference towards all Iraqi suicide bombings, military attacks, and generic shootings on a daily basis.

I guess the protests in America are all Canadian students crossing the border? Oh wait, I forgot its okay to marginilize some people but not others, carry on enlighthened one.

 

[Ennui]

Don't pick fights unless it's necessary. The entirety of the USA's population, including pretty much every single university student, mourned the VT shootings... it's a very valid point to bring up. Hundreds or even thousands of Iraqi college students and professors have been killed in the war, almost all of which we are either directly or indirectly responsible for as a nation - because we are still indirectly responsible for the majority of the secretarian violence in Iraq - which makes VT look paltry, and yet as a country the proportion of grief and mourning is unbelievably hugely skewed.

 

[Viperidae]

I guess the protests in America are all Canadian students crossing the border? Oh wait, I forgot its okay to marginilize some people but not others, carry on enlighthened one.

/LEFT FIELD

 

[VirusType2]

The fact is, I don't think very many Americans even know the truth. If they hear anything, they hear statistics, and civilians aren't given names or any kind of identity, and rarely mentioned.

I just heard on the morning news, an accuasation that the truth about the amount of civilian casualties is being lied about, and the truth is actually much worse, but Iraqi government denied it.


I pay attention to the news when I catch a few minutes of it in the break room at work, and I listen to the radio while getting ready for work, and I rarely hear about the Iraq war anymore. I guess it's just not news worthy anymore. :angry: