Last week (thursday) was the anniversary of the worst school killing in American history.
Why don't you know of this killing, and what happened?
@Pat , the Bath School massacre, 1927.
I heard of it, but I just don't celebrate the anniversary of it.
I think a lot of people here on qoto were not even born when that happened, so they don't remember it.
@Pat , I don't celebrate it either. I fear repeats. And I feel that the reason no one has told them about the event isn't because it was from before they were born. Midway was before I was born. Jack the Ripper was before I was born. Krakatoa was before I was born. We learn about those things. We talk endlessly about school killings, but no one seems to know about the worst one in American history? There is intent in that omission.
A lot of stuff happens in the world and some of it gets remembered by subsequent popular culture but most of it doesn't. Midway was kind of a big event in a big war so people remember that one. Jack the Ripper is remembered because it occurred at a time when there was a change in the way that newspapers reported the news – it coincided with the development of sensationalism in newspapers and producers of fiction found that the story would sell more books and such, so it perpetuated. I had to look up Krakatoa not because I don’t remember about the volcanic eruption but because I have dyslexia and I don't remember infrequently used proper nouns very well out of context.
It sounds like you have a theory about why certain events get remembered more while others don’t. Would you care to share your theory?
@Pat , I have two theories. One regarding why the worst school killing in American history is effectively ignored by the media, and the public in general, and another regarding how the narrative has to change, and how to change it. My 2nd theory is that without people independently observing my 1st, they will unintentionally refuse to accept my 1st. That the act of pointing out the obvious undermines the ability to understand. It's something about how our brains are hardwired. My attempt has to be limited to pointing out the existence of the event, and asking why this is not a well known event considering how much worse it is than any other similar event in America.