I wanted to share an article but after read/scanned ~6 of them - I had nothing to share. They weren't any good. I wish blogs were still a thing. Blogs can be excellent on topics like these. Here's the Wikipedia page - Columbine High School massacre.

  • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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    2 months ago

    Why Do We Get Columbine So Wrong?

    Two popular bullies try to blow up a school and then shoot people when the explosions fail.

    They were not geeky, picked on, trenchcoat-wearing, Marilyn Manson fans, bent on revenge, who asked people if they believed in god. Everything most people think they know about Columbine is false.

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      Anything informed by Dave Cullen's book is trash and they really weren't very popular.

      Regarding music:

      Some of Eric's references/purchases include: KMFDM, Rammstein, Ich Bin Ein Auslander by Pop Will Eat Itself, Closer by Nine Inch Nails, Guilty by Gravity Kills, Fly (the album Bombthreat: Before She Blows), Lights of Euphoria, The Electric Hellfire Club, Funker Vogt, Loreena McKennitt, Orbital, Trip Factor, Front 242, Nosferatu, Die Krupps, The Prodigy, Marilyn Manson, Enya

      And some of Dylan's: Nine Inch Nails, The Chemical Brothers, White Zombie, They May Be Giants, The Smashing Pumpkins, Alice In Chains, KMFDM, Americana by The Offspring, soundtracks from The Doom Generation etc, Autechre, Rammstein, Ceiba, Prana, DJ Spoon, Atari Teenage Riot, Marilyn Manson

      They did wear trenchcoats but only in their home films. https://youtu.be/4bvH5VHsddg?si=Q8gnlpUBf9BHoSU6 around the 1 hour mark you can see them hanging out in the cafeteria (one in a KMFDM shirt). There's also ~11,000 pages of investigative documents that were released.

      The asking people if they believed in god is obviously bullshit, and the NYT made up a student who they attributed quotes to (Bob).