Virginia vs. Iraq

[Ghoulish Delight]

The victims

Liviu Librescu, 76, an engineering science and mechanics lecturer. Born in Romania, he survived the Nazi Holocaust and emigrated to Israel in 1978 before moving to Virginia in 1985.An Israeli citizen, he had taught at Virginia ech for 20 years and was internationally known for his work in aeronautical engineering.

"His research has enabled better aircraft, superior composite materials, and more robust aerospace structures," said Ishwar Puri, the head of the engineering science and mechanics department.


After surviving the Nazi killings, Librescu escaped from Communist Romania and made his way to the United States before he was killed in Monday’s massacre, which coincided with Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Librescu's son, Joe, said his father's students sent e-mails detailing how the professor saved their lives by blocking the doorway of his classroom from the approaching gunman before he was fatally shot.
“My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee,” Joe Librescu said from his home outside of Tel Aviv. “Students started opening windows and jumping out.”

[Alex]

And if mass shooting on American college campuses happened every day in a couple months there'd hardly be any coverage.

It is an inherent bias in the news. No matter how overwhelmingly significant something is, if it happens too regularly it will not be covered in proportion.

[lizziebith]

Grief? That's for my beloved oldest aunt who is quickly succumbing to a rare cancer. For strangers in my country and abroad, who are dying in large numbers and small, I have: a diffuse sadness, some horror, and a little shame that I can't care more. I can live with it though, and nobody can insist I grieve more. At least nobody who expects actual results from said insistence.