Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Just so we're clear

These were hate crimes.

links via Echidne

Posted by Kay Olson at 12:28 PM

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

We're clear.

Can I recommend for your and Echidne's consideration "The Screwfly Solution" by Raccoona Sheldon AKA James Tiptree.

Heraclitus

10/03/2006 5:59 PM
spotted elephant said...

Society in general is *not* clear on this. The media insist on referring to it as a "school" problem.

10/03/2006 11:04 PM
Kay Olson said...

Spotted Elephant: It's weird and maddening, isn't it?

I found that short story here: http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/sheldon/sheldon1.html

A quote from it:

Do you know I never said "we" meaning women before? "We" was always me and Alan, and Amy of course. Being killed selectively encourages group identification.…

10/03/2006 11:40 PM
Anonymous said...

Please correct me if I am wrong with this but i thought i had heard about the school schooting at the Amish community on the east coast that the guy had something happend to him (like 20 years prior) that he had not let go of. and that this was his way of getting even. what even happend to celebrateing diversity?

10/04/2006 6:04 AM
Kay Olson said...

What I've heard so far is that the "thing that happened to him" was his molesting little girls when he himself was a child. I'm sure the story is a big longer than that.

10/04/2006 4:19 PM
Anonymous said...

This is hate pure and simple

10/05/2006 5:27 PM
Dawn Allenbach said...

What I've read said the murderer had molested two female relatives 20 years ago, and that he'd been haunted by it ever since. Problem is that police contacted the alleged victims and they "didn't remember" being molested. Authorities think he picked the Amish school NOT because he was anti-Amish but because it was nearby and had little to no security.

As for hate crimes, I submit to you Pastor Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, KS. I swear between this ass and the BoE constantly trying to take evolution out of science classes, I'm sometimes embarrassed to admit I'm from Kansas.

Phelps is the "Christian" who protests at soldiers' funerals. He started off protesting at the funerals of people who had died of AIDS, saying "God hates fags." Problem was he didn't care whether the deceased contracted HIV from a homosexual relationship or not. To him, AIDS = gay. His latest is that his church was going to protest at the Amish girls' funeral. Their reasoning was that the murders were God's punishment for the PA governor signing a constitutional amendment bannning protesting within 500 feet of a funeral.

I try not to match his hate by hating him, but he makes it SO difficult.

10/06/2006 10:52 PM

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