Columbine was a shock, but even today most people don't know the little twerps were Nazis. They went wask off and libs politely pretended to not have noticed. Civility and all that.
Their neo-nazi beliefs were all over their manifestos and whatnot but the media kept hammering it home that is was a case of simple bullying and not anything deeper. Honestly all Columbine copy cat murders can be viewed as like an act of fascist terrorism. Reactionaries wield violence this way and this shit hardly has apolitical goals.
Yeah they claimed the violent media they consumed made them lash out against the school. We lacked the language back then like we do today to describe the shooters. They were black pilled fascists, straight up. Them playing doom had nothing to do with it. I'm sure they were bullied but it wasn't the crux of their motivation from what I've seen.
IIRC one of them was actually pretty popular beforehand- bullying wouldn't have been the whole story regardless, but it seems he wasn't actually bullied anyway
Oh totally. If there's one thing the 80s and 90s were known for, it was the absolute void of moral panics, social anxieties, and media terror campaigns propagated through the country.
Yeah after Columbine is when my school gained a higher police presence. The cops and the school resource officer like involved in everything. We never got metal detectors but we did have a system where the school's main entrance could be locked off but there was still multiple side entrances into the school though. You couldn't make jokes about anything school shooting related. The "weird" kids were always watched. I could go on but it was like a paradigm shift.
Ah how optimistic. Columbine in 2000 then 9/11 in 2001 ripped the covers right off that one.
Columbine was a shock, but even today most people don't know the little twerps were Nazis. They went wask off and libs politely pretended to not have noticed. Civility and all that.
Their neo-nazi beliefs were all over their manifestos and whatnot but the media kept hammering it home that is was a case of simple bullying and not anything deeper. Honestly all Columbine copy cat murders can be viewed as like an act of fascist terrorism. Reactionaries wield violence this way and this shit hardly has apolitical goals.
IIRC the media was also blaming the shooting on Doom and Marilyn Manson.
Yeah they claimed the violent media they consumed made them lash out against the school. We lacked the language back then like we do today to describe the shooters. They were black pilled fascists, straight up. Them playing doom had nothing to do with it. I'm sure they were bullied but it wasn't the crux of their motivation from what I've seen.
IIRC one of them was actually pretty popular beforehand- bullying wouldn't have been the whole story regardless, but it seems he wasn't actually bullied anyway
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I recall that vividly, even in UK news Manson was brought up.
Which is fucking great because one of the twips was literally wearing a KMFDM t-shirt during the shooting
Hell, they even came out with a song making fun of the shooters
Really shows you how much research actually went into all the reporting
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Columbine was the micro, 9/11 the macro In increasing the fear based repression in the US
Oh totally. If there's one thing the 80s and 90s were known for, it was the absolute void of moral panics, social anxieties, and media terror campaigns propagated through the country.
Yeah after Columbine is when my school gained a higher police presence. The cops and the school resource officer like involved in everything. We never got metal detectors but we did have a system where the school's main entrance could be locked off but there was still multiple side entrances into the school though. You couldn't make jokes about anything school shooting related. The "weird" kids were always watched. I could go on but it was like a paradigm shift.
Wasn't Columbine in '99?
Yeah my bad.
yes
Oklahoma was 95