Well let's see this guy Cho was taunted and bullied and denied the basic human dignity and respect we all are entitiled to,Excerpt from an article about one of the many humilating experiences this guy went through"Once, in an English class, the teacher had the students read aloud and, when it was Cho’s turn, he just looked down in silence, Davids recalled in an interview with The Associated Press. Finally, after the teacher threatened to give him a failing grade for participation, Cho started to read in a strange, deep voice that sounded “like he had something in his mouth,” Davids said.
“As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing and pointing and saying, ‘Go back to China,’”.......When are people going to understand that you can not deny another person of basic respect and diginty with out their being consequences. Remember Columbine another example of inexcusable bullying gone wrong.
2007-04-19 20:26:07 · 14 answers · asked by Shantay M 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I'd like to say this to all those who think it's a bunch of bull crap, and that many kids are bullied but that doesn't make many kids go kill people... Many kids who are bullied have some one to turn to. Cho came to the US when he was 8 years old, and probably experienced an extreme case of Culture Shock. It doesn't help at all when the kids in school tell you to go back to a country you didn't even come from. Cho had NO ONE to talk to or confide in. Lot's of kids have trouble telling their parents how mean the kids at school are, but most of these kids grew up here, so they had at LEAST one or two friends they can complain to. Cho didn't even have that. People really need to learn to respect one another. How many people must lose their lives to the kids that were tormented before we realize we need to stop picking on people just because we think we're better than them? We need to stop! We need to learn to respect every one. We need to learn that putting some one down does not make us the bigger man.
I think there should be a class in high school that teaches kids the importance of respecting one another, teaches kids to deal with stress and cope with anger, and also teaches kids not blame others for a bad life, and lets them know the world is not against them. This class would deal with the bullies as well as those who get picked on.
I think the way Cho reacted was VERY wrong, and my heart goes out to the victims, their families, and even to Cho's family. I'm sure none of those kids deserved what what happened to them. But we can't ignore what drove the person to commit this heinous act. We can't ignore the people who have no one to turn to, and no one to confide in.
2007-04-20 07:31:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Constant abuse of any kind creates two kinds of people, those who totally withdraw until they die and those who lash out and hurt or kill others and possibly themselves. While there is no justification for either the abuse and the aftermath that he CHOSE to perpetrate on others, the truth is that eventually, people feel too broken to mend and become whole again. Aside from that, our society as a whole has become "I" centered and until we shift back to a more even handed approach, I am afraid more of these horrible things will happen. We have become disconnected from each other and addicted to substitutes for what we need most - real, personal contact with someone who loves us unconditionally for who we are, who we can be and who we are inside. We have kids having kids so somebody will love THEM, and all too late they see that it doesn't work that way. We have parents who are older having kids so they will be 'fulfilled' - as if checking a box will make that childs' life decent. We have a vast divide between rich and poor which is growing wider by the day. While it isn't right to be jealous, it's awfully hard to feel like you are equal when you see struggles to survive in your home as compared to the bounty spread for another who isn't much different from you on the outside. Since the people who reported him to various agencies both professional and academic were never vigorously pursued in behalf of this very disturbed young man, we will never know if he could have been helped in some way. Hind sight is a wonderful thing. It allows total clarity that simply didn't happen on the first go round.
2016-05-19 03:34:47 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard this interview my self and you blow it way out of portion. The teacher never did as you said and it was a few kids in the back of the room that was giggling and no one yell go home.
This Cho was not bullied he was picked on. Bullying is more than words and giggling.
The two in Columbine were the bullies. This was said by all the other kids they had been bullies for years. Bevies and but-head were the ones that push littler kids around. They loved it killing was just the next step for them. Did they kill any big mean kids? NO! they killed people like the girl that said she loved God.
The ones doing the mass killings are the bullies and love hurting others.
Many kids are bullied and picked on. I was. I did not hurt any one. I have worked all my life saving others that are hurt.
What was inexcusable is the killers.
2007-04-19 20:59:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
He was not bullied. What basic human rights was he denied? No excuses please.
All teachers ask kids to read aloud and if the kid fails to obey the teachers always threatened to flunk the kid.
Happened to me and I never killed anyone.
How dare you blame the teacher he/she was doing his/her job. Reading aloud is a way to improve a student's reading and public speaking skills. (Did you notice in his video, he spoke perfect English with no accent.) This teacher should be praised.
Did the teacher know he was going to get laughed at? No.
Interesting that you are blaming the teacher but not kids and your information fails to list what the teacher did after the kids laughed.
Shame on you for making excuses and trying to blame others for what Cho Seung-Hui the killer did. He and only he is to blame for the slaughter of 32 innocent people.
2007-04-19 22:59:30 · answer #4 · answered by lostinchicago 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I don't know the whole story about the VA Tech shooting but one thing i keep telling myself is that if the shooter didn't speak with anyone that means he didn't bother anyone. Maybe i'm wrong but i keep thinking about it. I heard that he didn't like to speak with anyone. And someone told me that we failed him. Why would someone say that we failed a shooter? Maybe that person is aware or sees something that we don't see?
2014-09-28 00:07:23 · answer #5 · answered by Omnist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is true, it is clear to me that bullying is counter productiv in every sence of the word.
It not only harms the bullied but also the bullier.
Howether across the world thousands, no millions of children and young adults are bullied and not many of them kill their class mates.
The schools should give more support to these students.
Howether there is no excuse for what this 'young korean man' did. It is unforgivable, and I hope he regrets it now.
2007-04-19 20:31:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The bullied became the bullier and lost all moral rights to sympathy from the time he shot his first victim. We should not pity him and make him another martyr for others to copycat.
You also overlook he was stalking girls and was very anti-social towards people at his university.
His bullying occurred in junior high and high school. He enacted his revenge on people who didn't even know him.
2007-04-19 20:54:01 · answer #7 · answered by samurai_dave 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That is exactly the message Cho is trying to spread and its unfortunate he had to take such drastic action to bring this social ills into light.
I myself went thriough similar ordeals and chose to run away by dropping out of school. Still it traumatized me to the point where normalcy was none existant and took my 15 years of isolation to get back on my feet again. I was lucky, many are not.
The majority of people that have not suffered and lost half of thier life living in the gates of hell have no idea!
Its no different than torture.
Tina, imagine you were held in a cage, nude, in class and people poking stick at you and it was like that every day for a decade. Would you snap?
Cho wasn't just being teased, hge was traumatized, it made him sick.
2007-04-19 20:36:11 · answer #8 · answered by aorton27 3 · 6⤊ 3⤋
Cho, was bully everyday, he had no one to talk to, he also need to study hard because Asian parent expectation,
When you facing long period of time, you will start going insane, it natural human behavior, he loves he parents that why he willing to take all these bulling, he dont want to upset his parent...
But human mentally it very random, some people get bully and strong enough to withstand it, they become more confidence after graduating.
Some will be scared and developed anxiety, and social problems,
The extreme will believe that life is worthless, what the point of living, he could of committed suicide but then all the bully will just laugh at him and go unpunished .
he want to let the people that going to commit suicide ,
IF you going to KILL YOURSELF MAKE SURE u take all the people that ruined you life. With you
In he video he even mention that's, he dont want to do this but was forced....
HE cant fight back since he out numbers, what can you do?
get bully every day?
suicide?
ignored?
There should be more of him, then bully and public will realized that bulling people is dangerous.. that become mentally unstable...
WE all human... WE can only withstand so much....
2014-03-07 22:00:43 · answer #9 · answered by vdfdfd 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pple are talking about this man like he did something good! Just forget his name and focus on the victims! Where were their names and where they bullied or treated right! If you pay him attention like this there will be some idiot tomorow who didnt have attention shooting up something!
Hey I was picked on and hardly mistreated in school, you didnt see me killing pple! I was always choosen last and ignored by pple! Even when i tried to do something bad or do as the others i got laughed at and ignored! They treated me like I was invisable unless they want help with something.
When I went to a different school i told myself. I will keep quiet and wont talk and maybe they wont know something is wrong with me or im different but the found out anyways! ;) Children and Teenagers can be cruel! Its apart of growing up!
2007-04-19 20:37:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋