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Debate:Is it tasteless for Conservapedia to critique the Virginia Tech poem on the Main Page? (view source)
Revision as of 02:26, April 26, 2007
, 02:26, April 26, 2007→The Poem, as it is placed on the front page: added full text
::Why don't we get up the full poem - just so everyone can see how biased it is.[[User:Iduan|Iduan]] 22:22, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
::Why don't we get up the full poem - just so everyone can see how biased it is.[[User:Iduan|Iduan]] 22:22, 25 April 2007 (EDT)
== The Poem, as it is placed on the front page ==
== The Poem ==
Read for yourself the official response by Virginia Tech's English Department. '''No mention of God or prayer, but many invocations of unrelated liberal causes:'''
Read for yourself the official response by Virginia Tech's English Department. '''No mention of God or prayer, but many invocations of unrelated liberal causes:'''
<br>We are Virginia Tech
<br>We are sad today
<br>We will be sad for quite a while
<br>We are not moving on
<br>We are embracing our mourning
<br>We are Virginia Tech
<br>We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly
<br>We are brave enough to bend to cry
<br>And we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again
<br>We are Virginia Tech
<br>We are Virginia Tech
<br>We do not understand this tragedy
<br>We do not understand this tragedy
<br>We know we did nothing to deserve it [denies accountability]
<br>We know we did nothing to deserve it [denies accountability]
But neither does a child in Africa
<br>But neither does a child in Africa
<br>Dying of AIDS
<br>Dying of AIDS
<br>Neither do the Invisible Children
<br>Neither do the Invisible Children
<br>Walking the night away to avoid being captured by a rogue army [globalism]
<br>Walking the night away to avoid being captured by a rogue army [globalism]
Neither does the baby elephant watching his community
<br>Neither does the baby elephant watching his community
<br>Be devastated for ivory [environmentalism]
<br>Be devastated for ivory
<br>Neither does the Mexican child looking
<br>Neither does the Mexican child looking
<br>For fresh water
<br>For fresh water
Neither does the Iraqi teenager dodging bombs [anti-Bush]
<br>Neither does the Iraqi teenager dodging bombs [anti-Bush]
<br>Neither does the Appalachian infant killed
<br>Neither does the Appalachian infant killed
<br>By a boulder
<br>By a boulder
<br>Dislodged
<br>Dislodged
<br>Because the land was destabilized [environmentalism]
<br>Because the land was destabilized [environmentalism]
<br>...
<br>Full poem [http://www.english.vt.edu/ here].
<br>No one deserves a tragedy
<br>We are Virginia Tech
<br>The Hokie Nation embraces
<br>Our own
<br>And reaches out
<br>With open heart and mind
<br>To those who offer their hearts and hands
<br>We are strong
<br>And brave
<br>And innocent
<br>And unafraid
<br>We are better than we think
<br>And not yet quite what we want to be
<br>We are alive to imagination
<br>And open to possibility
<br>We will continue
<br>To invent the future
<br>Through our blood and tears
<br>Through all this sadness
<br>We are the Hokies
<br>We will prevail
<br>We will prevail
<br>We will prevail
<br>We are
<br>Virginia Tech
...
<br> [http://www.english.vt.edu/ here].
'''Our prayers continue to go out to the victims' families of the Virginia Tech massacre.'''
'''Our prayers continue to go out to the victims' families of the Virginia Tech massacre.'''