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While that's a powerful visual, I honestly think that this is a more important video to watch in regards to school shootings:
Truth be told, I don't know if I can honestly say that I know what I'm supposed to be noticing in the PoV video. There was the "Dead Man" poster and weapons imagery in the locker (that was presumably the kid's), but what else were we supposed to be looking at?
I understand that much, but the entire first half of the video there's nothing derogatory being said about or done to him. And regardless of how awful bullying is, that's neither an excuse nor necessarily a stressor for a school shooter. If it were you'd see a lot more gay/trans/female/PoC shooters, but as far as I've seen that's simply not the case, it's more complicated (or maybe more simple?) than thatYou should take note of how everyone actually ignore the shooter and see him with rude eyes all the time. As in the first person view is the one of the shooter since the start of the video. None talks to him. People look at him disgusted.
The video is from the "eyes of the shooter". His point of view.
It talks about the bullying, yeah, but I don't see that as the main point.I understand that much, but the entire first half of the video there's nothing derogatory being said about or done to him. And regardless of how awful bullying is, that's neither an excuse nor necessarily a stressor for a school shooter. If it were you'd see a lot more gay/trans/female/PoC shooters, but as far as I've seen that's simply not the case, it's more complicated (or maybe more simple?) than that
as someone who tried to commit suicide several times as a youth i never once thought about the fallout of it all . . . i cried watching the videoWhile that's a powerful visual, I honestly think that this is a more important video to watch in regards to school shootings:
the fact that the camera was more than that . . . it was a student that went unnoticed even bumped in the locker room and still went unnoticed (by his peers)Truth be told, I don't know if I can honestly say that I know what I'm supposed to be noticing in the PoV video. There was the "Dead Man" poster and weapons imagery in the locker (that was presumably the kid's), but what else were we supposed to be looking at?
I am not sure what I was supposed to be looking at/for there. Anyway looked like they only had one magazine there -- I would have expected at least two taped together.
Normally I would link Smack my bitch up about now but as I can only find the uncensored version on vimeo right now (I did not look hard) I will have to skip that one.
What I took from it was to simply notice people. Get off your phone, engage outside your circle, and afford some people the opportunity to be social with you. You may save lives.
#drugcooklivesmatterIgnoring the "probably reading too much into this" discussion that sounds difficult. Can't we try to instead persuade these people to go let rip at some drug cooks or something? Most times I see such a thing I think "why would anybody do it for something as worthless and forgettable as school?".
Normally I don't like seeing "back in my day!/this new generation is going down the drain" based arguments, but honestly I think this is the right response. I don't think it's necessarily the kids' faults, though, I think its the overabundance of negative media that implies that extreme violence is a solution to the problems of an individualIf that's all it takes for these kids to shoot up a school nowadays, then we've fucked up long ago and irreparably for this generation.
Jokes on you, I am always sorry!"Tomorrow, you'll all be sorry." damnn