Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Off Topic School massacre in Germany: 8 out of 9 killed students are girls

These are three young men who were murdered in 1964:

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You can describe them as three civil rights workers who were kidnapped and killed in 1964. Or you can say that it doesn't matter that they were civil rights workers, and all young murder victims are to be mourned whether they are civil rights workers or not.

This is a somewhat older man who was murdered:



You can describe him as a homosexual man who was murdered. Or you can say that it doesn't matter that he was homosexual, and all human beings who are murdered are to be mourned, and this man was a human being.



These people are Jews who are being marched from the Jewish ghetto in Warzaw to a concentration camp, where they will be killed. You can say, if you want to, that it doesn't matter that they were Jews, and the interesting thing is that eight million people were killed at the concentration camps.



These four girls were killed at the Jonesboro massacre. You can say that it doesn't matter that they were girls, and the important thing is that they were children.

You can say all these things. You can, if you want to, refuse to describe people as anything else than people or children. I agree that it is of the utmost importance to acknowledge - really acknowledge - that all people are, well, people.

But sometimes you just understand more if you are more specific. Because some people are killed because they are a certain kind of people.

Ann