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Date Posted: 13:25:21 04/22/07 Sun
Author: Lynx
Subject: Re: Should NBC have shown the tape?
In reply to: EJetson 's message, "Should NBC have shown the tape?" on 07:24:00 04/19/07 Thu

>I haven't seen it yet, but do you think that NBC
>should have shown the tape of Cho Seung-Hui?

Absolutely not. Nor did any online mainstream media (ABC,CNN,CBS,MSNBC, and on and on) show sound judgement in publishing enormous photos of Cho with a gun to his head on their front pages. That would be uber-disturbing to many children and a substantial number of adults, too. It disturbed the hell out of me. I've never allowed myself to become desensitized to TV and movie violence, let alone this kind of thing. In someone like me, these images can cause nightmares; in other people, probably much worse things.

I think I can offer just a smidgeon of insight into the racial and mental health implications. In one of my old jobs, back in the day, I supervised a group of South Korean seamstresses, all wives of college students. Almost all were going to return to Korea after their husbands' educations, but I became particularly close to one young married woman who had actually immigrated to this country, along with her student husband and her entire birth family. She was enthusiastic about becoming an American, and made this enlightening comment to me: "You know what I like about America? Parents talk to children. In Korea, no talk; just give orders." To live with that level of parental non-communication in Korea may be perfectly normal in its own context, but Cho came from a tradtional Korean family in the middle of big white America. Most children are quite capable of adapting between two cultures, but some cannot. Obviously. It would be interesting to know if his antisocial personality exerted itself before or after immigrating to this country at age 8.

I do not believe that any new gun laws should come of this incident. I think that, possibly, some mental health laws could be strengthened, but not to the extent of evaluating the mental status of all Americans, which has already been proposed.

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