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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 17:53, April 21, 2007
, 17:53, April 21, 2007Added poem to bottom. Please, leave it there, so that we don't have to have two windows open at all times to look at it.
::I'm not going to say you've been disrespectful of free speech, but you have been disrespectful of this site. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 13:51, 21 April 2007 (EDT)
::I'm not going to say you've been disrespectful of free speech, but you have been disrespectful of this site. [[User:Karajou|Karajou]] 13:51, 21 April 2007 (EDT)
== The Poem, as it is placed on the front page ==
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 do not understand this tragedy
<br>We know we did nothing to deserve it [denies accountability]
But neither does a child in Africa
<br>Dying of AIDS
<br>Neither do the Invisible Children
<br>Walking the night away to avoid being captured by a rogue army [globalism]
Neither does the baby elephant watching his community
<br>Be devastated for ivory [environmentalism]
<br>Neither does the Mexican child looking
<br>For fresh water
Neither does the Iraqi teenager dodging bombs [anti-Bush]
<br>Neither does the Appalachian infant killed
<br>By a boulder
<br>Dislodged
<br>Because the land was destabilized [environmentalism]
<br>...
<br>Full poem [http://www.english.vt.edu/ here].
'''Our prayers continue to go out to the victims' families of the Virginia Tech massacre.'''