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Originally posted by OzzyKP
My point wasn't that he was an outcast. Being an outcast doesn't necessarily have to do with it (it certainly makes things worse) but just being young does. The system (for the most part) oppresses all young people equally. I think the popularity of this murderer is shown by the targets he chose. In Columbine the murderers were outcasts so they shot the popular students they felt bullied them. In this case he wasn't bullied or oppressed by his fellow students but more directly by the system, so he almost exclusively murdered teachers.
Oppression has a way of acting in a chain. If you look at the American South pre-civil rights, the most racist whites were poor whites. They had less respect and ability than wealthy whites so sought to better their position by putting down blacks. This is how it always works, Group A oppressed Group B, so Group B finds a scapegoat to oppress. This is how it works in schools among youth. The 'system' (teachers, parents, government, etc) oppresses all youth, rather than settle with just being oppressed the jocks, preps, whoever, seek to alieviate their situation somewhat by manuevering themselves into the middle of the chain rather than the bottom, so they start bullying their fellow students, the outcasts.
This chain gets even more complex than this. In middle school my friends and I were in the middle spot among students, we would get picked on by certain groups of students and we would pick on other groups of students. It is a shameful thing I have done, but it is what happens when you are in a system of oppression.
When someone is in this system of oppression every once in a while they will snap and have enough of it and they will strike back against their oppressors. In Columbine they struck back against the popular kids, in Germany he struck back at his teachers.
My point wasn't that he was an outcast. Being an outcast doesn't necessarily have to do with it (it certainly makes things worse) but just being young does. The system (for the most part) oppresses all young people equally. I think the popularity of this murderer is shown by the targets he chose. In Columbine the murderers were outcasts so they shot the popular students they felt bullied them. In this case he wasn't bullied or oppressed by his fellow students but more directly by the system, so he almost exclusively murdered teachers.
Oppression has a way of acting in a chain. If you look at the American South pre-civil rights, the most racist whites were poor whites. They had less respect and ability than wealthy whites so sought to better their position by putting down blacks. This is how it always works, Group A oppressed Group B, so Group B finds a scapegoat to oppress. This is how it works in schools among youth. The 'system' (teachers, parents, government, etc) oppresses all youth, rather than settle with just being oppressed the jocks, preps, whoever, seek to alieviate their situation somewhat by manuevering themselves into the middle of the chain rather than the bottom, so they start bullying their fellow students, the outcasts.
This chain gets even more complex than this. In middle school my friends and I were in the middle spot among students, we would get picked on by certain groups of students and we would pick on other groups of students. It is a shameful thing I have done, but it is what happens when you are in a system of oppression.
When someone is in this system of oppression every once in a while they will snap and have enough of it and they will strike back against their oppressors. In Columbine they struck back against the popular kids, in Germany he struck back at his teachers.
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