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These are the people who have basically lived their lives going through active shooter drills and know they have more than a zero percent chance of being shot at or killed at school.
People dying and the threat of people dying to the younger generation is normalized at least this one time it wasn't them ... Maybe hoping something will bring change.
That's just my opinion though from someone who didn't grow up afraid of being shot at school.
I grew up with that fear and don't think it was acceptable. I understand why others do, and I won't invalidate the feelings behind why. I live with chronic health issues that I don't have insurance or money to see a doctor for, and I desperately want change for everyone else suffering, as well. I don't think compounding that through vigilante justice is the answer. I can't change that it happened or that others sympathize with it, but I can continue to listen and advocate for systemic change moving forward where and when I can.
if violence is not acceptable, all healthcare ceos must be in prison for life. they're not, so it is.
in reality, there's a desperate attempt at drilling the idea into our minds that violence against the powerful isn't acceptable. this obsessive coverage of how people don't condemn this shooting is happening literally at the same time that someone who murdered a homeless person was allowed to walk. is there outrage in the media about how this is unacceptable?
not really. you kill a homeless person, you walk. you kill a CEO who's responsible for thousands of deaths, you get charged with terrorism.
the ceo's violence is acceptable. killing homeless people is acceptable. the police killing practically anyone is acceptable. but if you just threaten a CEO, you get 15 years in prison.
this is bullshit. what they want is for you to only count one particular kind of violence unacceptable. the kind that might lead to liberation. it happened with women, black people and lgbtq. they can't allow the liberation of the lower economic classes too. that would be terrible.
What I don't understand about this viewpoint is: What systematic change are you talking about? The DNC has completely betrayed the working class, the GOP is the GOP and nobody seems interested in pushing third parties. I haven't heard of a single protest, let alone a strike or other effective political action (which peotests aren't, to be clear) against this issue specifically or the capitalist capture of America in general.