From the Virginia Tech English Department, Nikki Giovanni’s poem about the mass murder drags in every leftist trope in existence.

We are Virginia Tech

We do not understand this tragedy
We know we did nothing to deserve it

But neither does a child in Africa
Dying of AIDS

Neither do the Invisible Children
Walking the night away to avoid being captured by a rogue army

Neither does the baby elephant watching his community
Be devastated for ivory
Neither does the Mexican child looking
For fresh water

Neither does the Iraqi teenager dodging bombs

Neither does the Appalachian infant killed
By a boulder
Dislodged
Because the land was destabilized

No one deserves a tragedy

(Hat tip: 29Victor.)

And at “progressive” publishing house Soft Skull Press, Cho’s heinous crime was a revolutionary act: ’Schoolyard massacres are rebellions against oppressive and bullying environments by students who can’t take it anymore’ NOT ‘Cho Seung-Hui did it because he was crazy and evil’.

Alternet just had the author in question, Mark Ames, do a piece on the shootings. An excerpt from that follows, with the link and more information on the book and the author right after that…The excerpt gives you a good sense of Mark’s argument in the book…

Media: “Cho Seung-Hui did it because he was crazy and evil.”
History: “Schoolyard massacres are rebellions against oppressive and bullying environments by students who can’t take it anymore.”

Another rampage massacre, this time the worst ever. Which means another fake attempt at trying to understand this uniquely American crime—these interminable rage killing sprees in our workplaces and our schoolyards.

What makes the Virginia Tech massacre more horrifying isn’t just the body count but the reaction of the living: The official fake soul-searching is more idiotic than ever, revealing, if anything, a culture that is so insanely delusional and incapable of self-reflection that it almost makes these rampage massacres seem relatively natural.

The footage from Seung-Hui’s “media manifesto” has played on cable news on an endless loop for days now, and no one has considered the merits of his grievances—except to cast them as proof positive that Cho Seung-Hui was one sick guy.

(Hat tip: zombie.)