Has anyone heard about the two student's costumes at Penn State? Apparently they dressed up as Virgina Tech victims, wearing VT shirts covered in fake bullet holes and blood. The university has sent apologies to Virgina Tech, but no disciplinary action will be taken since it will violate free-speech rights. The students said it was for shock value, not to mock the massacre or to be funny.
He states, "The thing is, everybody's making a big stink about Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech was 32 deaths out of the 26 thousand that happen in America everyday," he said. "That's the problem with college students. They all live in an ivory tower of privilege. They don't understand, when it all boils down to it, it's someone wearing a costume."
What are your thoughts? Do you think it was an insensitive and disrespectful gesture, or simply a costume?
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