Re: Krupskaya

Diane HODGES (dchodges who-is-at interchange.ubc.ca)
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 06:19:01 -0800

hello margaret;
thanks for the thoughts. i think it is misleading to pathologize hate
crimes; and that is more what i intended to say;
once acts of hatred are pathologized, the criminality of the act is
moot - the pathology, the illness, is captured by different discourses that
hate crime discourses;

there is a considerable amount of evidence to suggest the Nazi
influence, and for children that age to be so well-armed,
in Colorado, it is likely they were in contact with white supremacists;

certainly timing the (o i am a loss for a word to describe what
happened) - it, on Hitler's birthday, was part of the plan.

that there are insufficient quantities of black kids/minorities on
the list of dead is misleading: it is a hate that hasn't been
seen ...since i watched the exodus of Albanians on the news last night.

and these are grown men. men. men. (o i'm sorry did i repeat myself?)

i am afraid for these youth, the trenchcoat mafia, and all the
others who, as kathie goff pointed out, live such torture emotional lives
that they plan and enact these atrocities -

that these school killings occur in white rich neighbourhoods by
rich white youth is especially disturbing = what feeds that sort of hate?
diane

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When she walks,
the revolution's coming.
In her hips, there's revolution.
When she talks, I hear revolution.
In her kiss, I taste the revolution.
(poem by Kathleen Hanna: Riot Grrl)
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia
centre for the study of curriculum and knowledge
vancouver, british columbia, canada