The moment when you realize you are no longer shocked at school shooting horror shows.

[MirrorNoir]

When I heard the news about the most recent school shooting, at first I was "so what excuse is Biden going to use to avoid seeing the parents of the dead kids, who are most likely white and their shooter a minority?". Then I realized, as I talked to my mom (who was shocked at the shooting) during the afternoon and later, at work when I saw a much younger coworker visibly upset while watching the news coverage on the breakroom TV: I feel nothing. And then it hit me.

The South Park episode "Dead Kids". The episode where they wholesale spoofed the numbness of Americans over school shootings and how the episode revolved around Sharon being horrified that Randy and the rest of the parents were no longer horrified and shocked by the countless school shootings that happened.

I was fucking Randy Marsh, watching with the detached emotionless reaction at the horror and not caring, because these things are utterly commonplace at this point. The shock value has been erased and replaced with a nihilistic sense of not giving a crap. Because you have so many of them that you can't even be shocked or surprised at man's inhumanity towards others at this point.

The fact that the only thought to cross my mind was how Biden was going to blotch this or be insensitive because of the racial politics of the murderer/murder victim dynamic where certain victims are treated better than others? I don't know. I like to think of myself as not being fully, 100% black pilled but damn..... We are at the point in the fall of the empire where the mass murder of school kids happens on a regular basis and it's treated like an episode of a TV show where one of the cast members who's a professional singer gets to sing a song. Just part of the background noise. And it kind of frightens me that shit has reached that point.

 

[UtadaWasabi2]

I feel nothing too don't worry about it too much.

 

[Tomboy Respecter]

There was and autistic rant here but the gist of it was society is so fucked on so many levels at the moment, it's kinda hard for tragedies like these to really hit home like they ought to. Even during Sandy Hook there was some sort of national mourning for those kids. The lack of a cohesive culture and the division of America along political, racial and economic lines really has gotten rid of that unity that ought to be there in times like these.

With all this constant bad news about this or that, it's just impossible for something that is objectively repugnant to seem like anything more than another Tuesday.

 

[Queenfaggo]

That's the whole point of globohomo. They make your country so divided you don't care what happens in it anymore. You don't care when tragedies unfold. You don't care when mass deaths happen. You don't care about anything anymore and you become detached to your own society. So when they come along and try to shit on it even more, if you try to defend it, they just go "hey this country already sucks, what do you care if we make it suck just a bit more?"

20 dead kids should be a national mourning event. But instead, due to globohomo, everyone is just relieved/disappointed that the shooter was a taco so we don't have to prattle on about white guilt for a week.

 

[The Last Stand]

You're supposed to care about the well-being of children, especially in school. But, America itself doesn't care unless it's for an agenda.

Eventually, you get desensitized as it's a common occurrence. Then if/when it happens to/around you...

Children are literally third class citizens in today's age.

 

[Vingle]

It's a natural defence mechanism to get desensitised to tragedy, when exposed to it repeatedly. A thing you don't have to be in Murica, that's supposed to be a civilised country.

 

[Whatevermancer]

Cause school shootings in Murrica have been "business as usual" for several years now.

 

[The Last Stand]

It's a natural defence mechanism to get desensitised to tragedy, when exposed to it repeatedly. A thing you don't have to be in Murica, that's supposed to be a civilised country.

Key word: supposed to. There was more panic and hysteria for a methed out seasoned criminal than these children. Think about that.

 

[Retired Junta Member]

Our brains are fried by the continuous overstimulation of social media. We receive gruesome news from every corner of the world at the speed of light and we’re not built to handle that. So we stop caring. That’s more than normal.

 

[The Last Stand]

Our brains are fried by the continuous overstimulation of social media. We receive gruesome news from every corner of the world at the speed of light and we’re not built to handle that. So we stop caring. That’s more than normal.

Especially when you live in urban areas. A reported shooting there on the news is like the sun rising to the West or something.

 

[TinCan Wizard]

...and that's a good thing!

 

[Retired Junta Member]

Especially when you live in urban areas. A reported shooting there on the news is like the sun rising to the West or something.

More or less. And children stopped being something to care about long ago. Childhood used to be a properly regulated moment of life but now kids are exposed to adult stuff and things get murkier and murkier, so people are losing their empathy towards kids.
We live in a grim world.

 

[Null]

Stopped caring after every single fucking time someone got shot it became a political rally to strip away rights. As far as I'm concerned they can all die. I don't give a shit. Leave me alone.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

I was in Middle School in the late 90's when the Columbine shooting happened. It's just not the same impact anymore. I am not one of those people that freaks out about shit that doesn't directly impact me. Freaking out and getting upset isn't going to make it better.

School shootings aren't a new phenomenon though. It's happened in the past. Just with modern media it gets shoved in your face a lot. Information travels faster now.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

apathy is worse than death.

 

[Spud]

The phrase "How many children have to die" became "how many children do we have to kill"

 

[Picnic_Boy]

A crisis is an opportunity for insect people to lay their eggs.

 

[Suburban Bastard]

I try to never get attached not because I’m desensitized or something, but because the mass media’s addiction to covering these events and milking them as much as possible is absolutely fueling the drive for more of these acts to occur. I’m not saying coverage should be barred all together, rather they need to stop flaunting the killer’s face, name, and motivation around.

The gun discussion is also quite tiring at this point, America is solidly pro gun, yet the media keeps trying to light the “something needs to change!” drive every fucking time.

 

[David Brown]

Don't forget most school shootings are blacks shooting other blacks, so there's actually more school shootings than you think but they aren't reported on MSM.

 

[Xenomorph]

Mental Healthcare needs to be address but nothing is gonna fix this. You take away guns they use a knife you take a knife they use a car, bomb whatever. Nothing will fix this. Schools are going away faster than ever. Homeschooling is gonna skyrocket even more so in the next few years. There is no fi though they can blame the internet, guns, vidya games, movies, racism but some people are born feral/evil.