Posted on 04/19/2007 10:05:26 AM PDT by soccermom
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Long before he snapped, Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui was picked on, pushed around and laughed at over his shyness and the strange way he talked when he was a schoolboy in the Washington suburbs, former classmates say.
Chris Davids, a Virginia Tech senior who graduated from Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., with Cho in 2003, recalled that the South Korean immigrant almost never opened his mouth and would ignore attempts to strike up a conversation.
Once, in English class, the teacher had the students read aloud, and when it was Cho's turn, he just looked down in silence, Davids recalled. Finally, after the teacher threatened him with an F for participation, Cho started to read in a strange, deep voice that sounded "like he had something in his mouth," Davids said.
"As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing and pointing and saying, `Go back to China,'" Davids said......
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I was always the tallest kid in class and it was always the smallest one who would stalk me. I was taught as a Christian to be non-violent. But one day in 10th grade the bully waited for me with a belt in his hand and I snapped and beat the sh!t out of him. Something just took over in my brain like auto-pilot. I was never bothered again after that.
Parents tend to be the first ones in denial. Especially the head of the household in a Korean family.
I was always heavy and picked on as well, but I stood up for myself enough times and that stopped most of the teasing! I had bad thoughts about my “fellow” students due to that, but I did not go on a killing spree either....
Only a monster would consider wander around killing people at random! Should have been locked up in a rubber room!
What happened to you, obviously, was wrong. But you are dead on that it didn’t make you a psychotic killer.
Kids have always - and will always - make fun of other kids. Doesn’t matter if you are too fat or too skinny, too tall or too short, too smart or not smart enough, wear glasses, wear braces, wear the wrong color on the wrong day. Everyone gets picked on.
"As soon as he started reading, the whole class started laughing and pointing and saying, `Go back to China,'" Davids said......
Good old school days. We had a kid like that in our class, quiet Korean kid, but we used to call him "Andy the Inca Boy". I don't know why we decided he was from Peru, but it sure was funny, and a great way to learn about Incan culture for our more involved taunts!
This nutty shooter talked like he had a mouth full of marbles. I'd of picked on him too.
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
Kids used to laugh at me when I had to read out loud in high school, because I said "uh." I didn't appreciate it, but I also didn't go on mass shooting sprees.
Being laughed at is no excuse for murder, and the babies who develop sympathy for this puke because he was laughed at are gullible fools.
There’s an article posted at CNN about his family and it quotes the dad as saying that when he was younger they had trouble with him refusing to talk, but that they weren’t aware of his recent problems. So the “not talking” started early.
To be fair to the parents, the kid was 23, and for all we know he may have been estranged from his parents. A 23 year old is not a child, but an adult, and I’m not into blaming parents for the actions of their adult children. We don’t even know if he had regular contact with his parents.
I learned early on that the way to deal with a bully was not to go whining to the administration, but by picking up a 2x4....
You generally only have to resort to it ONCE, and the bully’s move on to easier prey.
If you want to see Darwinism in action, observe a group of elementary school students for a while....
Jeremy spoke in class today
Just about everybody gets picked on in school. I certainly was - I was the weird skinny geeky girl with braces. But I never went postal yet.
The liberals are finding excuses for this guy already. The Wall Street Journal Online today reprinted a 1993 article titled (I think) "Removing the Guard Rails" -- liberals started making excuses for bad behavior back about the time of the 1968 Chicago Dem Convention riots, and have continued ever since. It has resulted in the disappearance of personal responsibility and accountability. It's never anybody's fault (notice how this sick SOB in his video blames EVERYBODY else for what HE did.)
We don't want to go there. Everybody has the power to choose their actions, and they are responsible for what they do.
Same here. I was tormented for years. Bullies are terrible. But it doesn’t give you a license to go on a killing spree. I’m much stronger now & I always stand up for myself. This guy was evil in his heart.
Stephen King and Spielberg were picked on. Not uncommon in public schools.
I am an “Asian” looking person. I was raised in Mississippi, during the Vietnam war. I had to put up with all that and more. Gook, Chink, Slant-eyed-N_____, I’ve been called it all. Did I care? Yes, but that was just ignorance on THEIR part, not mine. Was I bullied? Sure, but after a few fights they left me alone in search of easier prey. I didn’t go insane and kill dozens of innocents. This guy took the wrong road, from which there is no return...........
For some reason I find that hysterical. LOL
Whaa freakin’ whaa! Did he miss his mommy holding it for him while he went too?
Being laughed at does not excuse murder.
This is a sin issue, nothing but a sin issue, never has been anything but a sin issue.
Remove God from School and something will replace it.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
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