About the most recent school shootings as part of random violence that can and does happen anywhere, everywhere in America at any time for any reason, or no reason that may be understood. Of course there is a lot of debate about it, one way or another but there can be no debate about this, it never (almost never) seems to happen at Harvard, Princeton or Yale etc. Why is that exactly? Why is it the Owners class” who profit for better or worse from gun violence and the gun lobby almost never seem to suffer from its ill effects? What is the reason for that?
Is it luck or coincidence? What is it?
Do I know? No.
Do you know?
If you do know, you might want to tell us because for most of us it’s a mystery. An enigma written in ancient language which is forgotten and it cannot be read. A society that suffers from massive gun violence can be a society that lives in a higher state of anxiety and fear. Fearful people are easier to control. Aren’t they? Is that a coincidence?
Please let’s not get confused! I am not saying there is no crime that ever happens at Ivy League schools. We all know that isn’t so! That would be silly! All of them have a campus police department. Also let’s please remember at the private high schools and elementary schools throughout America doesn’t seem to have a lot of Columbine type gun violence at any of those schools either that get into the national headlines.
It is clear they have better school counselors, better access to mental health counseling, probably better security as well but what if the rest of us had that? Would there have been the recent tragedy at that community college? You may ask which community college but we all know which one it is, don’t we and which one it was the time before that, and before that and so on.
How many Sandy Hook type tragedies happen in the private schools or in the gated communities from sea to shining sea? Maybe all of this is coincidence and it’s as simple as that. Maybe it’s not. Of course someone, somewhere will find some incident that happened at an elite private school somewhere and they’ll post it in the comments below and say “See it isn’t so!” but we all know it really is so. Almost always and forever because we’re expendable, aren’t we? They are not.
That is the real message here isn’t it, or is it we’re really just too dumb to never notice that these things aren’t supposed to happen to the “Good People”. If it ever does happen to the good people, they say something like, “it’s not supposed to happen here!”. Where is it suppose to happen, America?
What is the message here? It’s okay if it happens to us but not to them and never at Harvard, even though there aren't many Harvards.
Harvard University has been around for a very long time, since 1636 and it's never happened there. Never even once. What is it? Is that place magically charmed kind of like Hogwarts. Like protective magic straight out of Harry Potter. Maybe that is what the 36 billion dollar endowment buys! A protective magical amulet!
It never seems to happen at Princeton University either and it's been around since 1746 and they have enough money to buy protective magical amulets with a 21 billion dollar endowment.
It never happens at Yale University either. Although there aren't many Yales in America, Yale University has been around for a very long time since 1701 with a 25 billion dollar endowment which buys a lot of protective amulets!
It has never happened at Vanderbilt, Brown, Colombia, Stanford, etc.
These schools have been around for a very long time. I guess maybe that is because they never get struck by lightening either right? As part of the laws of nature physics!
No one ever talks about it. No one ever writes about it because hey everyone knows it isn't supposed to happen there! Therefore it doesn't. How could there ever be any articles written about it? Gee. I guess that's why no one will ever read this on this rec list because it's not supposed to happen here either.
That sort of thing only is supposed to be published at some obscure blogspot dot com web page one of "those" people in "that" America which is different from OUR America, right?
After all they are our self-appointed betters aren’t they! They're living in the American dream instead of the American nightmare, where the carnage of mass shootings destroy real people and terrorize the rest of us.
We do regularly work ourselves to death for them and go off to fight and die in their wars that only they profit from. Why should this be any different? Why shouldn’t’ we really swallow the line, hook, line and sinker, that it is not supposed to happen to them. It’s just not Black Lives that don’t matter in the America, it’s the 99% don’t matter. Maybe we should change that! Maybe we should stand up and say we are as mad as hell and we won’t take it anymore.
Of course there are even in the new gilded age individual examples of wealthy people who commit murder, some of whom have gone to elite schools but that is not really the same thing as mass shootings on campus of elite universities and schools which basically never happen because OUR schools really aren't in their class.