[lit-ideas] Re: {Disarmed} Making of a mass murderer in EnglishClass

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:01:51 -0500

LH:
>>How many does it take?  Most of us could probably watch the Texas Chain Saw 
>>Massacre without harm, but we are seeing evidence that Cho was powerfully 
>>affected by the materials he encountered in this class.  There may have been 
>>a connection between the class materials and Cho's subsequent actions.   We 
>>know he wasn't normal and in this class he was confronted by the depiction, 
>>even the glorification to use one of Obama's expression, of aberrant 
>>behavior.  He may have been encouraged by it.  Either he was encouraged by it 
>>or it is a coincidence that he just happened to be studying this material 
>>when he decided for utterly unrelated reasons to engage in similar actions.<<


So what's your point?
 

Mike Geary

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