It's all bunk

Lately we've been learning much from this newest tragedy in the chapter of school violence, Red Lake. As I expected, the media doesn't look for deeper causes of this, they found a scapegoat, perhaps it would get them more publicity by calling for boycotts of spiked hair and dark clothes than actually addressing the problems this young man faced. It would seem from the testimony of his classmates, the kid was somewhat of a goth, the typical profile you'd see from the media, spiked hair, dark clothes, seemed depressed. This is of course, blaming the symptoms (bad choice of words?) for the illness. No one seems to be interested in finding exactly what caused this, (could it be that his dad is dead and that his mom is severely handicapped?) Funny how we never hear of violence by the school quarterback, god knows there's alot of it, but somehow, our brilliant media know that the kid in the back of the class, being beat up by those stronger than him going nuts is better news than the constant crap those same people put up with every day. Let me finish my post by quoting Greg Gaffin from his essay available on www.badreligion.com:

Violence is neither common in, nor unique to punk. When it does manifest itself it is due to things unrelated to the punk ideal. Consider for example the common story of a fight at a high school between a punk and a jock football player. The football player and his cohort do not accept or value the punk as a real person. Rather, they use him as a vitriol receptacle, daily taunting, provoking, and embarrassing him, which of course is no more than a reflection of their own insecurities. One day, the punk has had enough and he clobbers the football captain in the hallway. The teachers of course expell the punk and cite his poor hairstyle and shabby clothing as evidence that he is a violent, uncontrollable no-good. The community newspaper reads "Hallway Beating Re-affirms that Violence is a Way of Life Among Punk Rockers".