Too long have I gone without the taste of fresh human meat.
Pia Durkin, Ph.D. (Piled Higher and Deeper) appears to have learned something after her utterly boneheaded attempt to railroad New Bedford school teacher Joanne Maura.
On Tuesday, April 30th another student whose name has not been released struck her teacher in the head with a metal trash can. In this video, Durkin attempts to clean up her image by stating that the teacher did an "excellent job" of trying to deescalate the situation. She did imply that other students should place themselves in danger by somehow addressing the problem, but she wisely refrained from blaming the teacher/victim for not using everything in her "toolkit."
What Durkin carefully avoided mentioning was the fact that a violent crime was committed by a violent criminal. Yes Pia, you can refer to criminals as criminals. Zeus will not cast lightning bolts in your general direction. She also avoided offending all of America's precious animal breeders by not questioning the home environment responsible for producing such gems of civility. Fear of lightning bolts again...or is it just good old fashioned indifference?
I've been writing about bullies and the criminally incompetent parents who produce them since well before Columbine and I'm truly impressed with everyone's willingness to avoid acknowledging the Elephant in the room, even after it has precipitated a series of very public acts of mass murder.
When I first learned of the Columbine Massacre I was anything but horrified. In fact, I felt an overwhelming sense of relief. I genuinely believed that this tragedy would break the ice. And briefly...it did. But very quickly the Circus of Denial rolled into town and dazzled the public with tales of Satanic influence, Marilyn Manson music, and the morally corrosive effects of violent video games.
The bodies had hardly begun to cool when the jackals began their feeding frenzy.
Opportunistic politicians called for more gun control. Church leaders blamed supernatural forces, and in at least one case claimed to have smelled burning sulfur in Clement Park, immediately adjacent to Columbine High School. Lawyers like Jeffrey Feiger gleefully spoke of "a wave of lawsuits." Almost everything but the source of the problem was identified as...the source of the problem. The bullies who precipitated the massacre have blithely moved on with their lives, free from the unreasonable burden of criminal accountability.
And that's what will happen in New Bedford if a similar media event is staged.
Your children will die...and the jackals will feed.
Start talking about bad parents...a lot.
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