Alpha Datea Rapea (sorry, 808)

alternateorg on April 30, 2001

From Erasing:


I’d gotten complacent in my post-graduation life and had been feeling entirely too fond of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia and had sort of glossed over the fact that I do live in The South and that the student body of my alma mater is very heavily populated with ignorant, bigoted, homophobic, slow-witted, upper-class, identically-dressed, thick-necked, barrel-chested, cleft-chinned, ruddy-faced, party-hearty pack-hunting preppie redneck alpha-male Aryan fratboy assholes who were born with not just silver spoons but entire dinette sets in their collective sagging mouths, whose political affiliations lie somewhere to the right of Attila The Hun except when it comes to laws regarding weed and rohypnol, and whose chest-thumping machismo and obnoxiousness and bigotry and homophobia and misogyny will be rewarded in what passes for their adulthood with high-paying jobs and trophy wives and lives of privilege and pleasure and a lifelong freedom from ever having to comprehend the concepts of not being able to afford something or of not getting their way.

Hrm…. Sounds a lot like Littleton to me. Note: Absolutely ZERO relation to Columbine High School in Littleton, CO was made. I’m speaking more directly of Arapahoe High School and its surrounding neighborhoods.

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20 Replies to “Alpha Datea Rapea (sorry, 808)”

  1. ddmmyy April 30, 2001 at 12:30 pm

    Sounds like every upper middle-class suburb. (ie. Redmond, WA… South Orange County, CA… etc.)

  2. gumby April 30, 2001 at 1:02 pm

    Littleton is very much not an appropriate comparison to make.

  3. 808 April 30, 2001 at 4:06 pm

    Littleton is a little more hickish… but it’s of the same mind set as this story.

  4. kev April 30, 2001 at 4:31 pm

    gumby: Why is Littleton not an appropriate comparison? It’s what my high school there sure as fuck felt like.

  5. gumby April 30, 2001 at 9:13 pm

    by comparing this situation to littleton you are implicitly placing blame for the shootings on the kids who attended Littleton High. There are schools described as this all over the nation. The fact that the people are shitty is no excuse for what was done there.

  6. 808 April 30, 2001 at 9:23 pm

    Did he even mention “the shootings”?

  7. kev April 30, 2001 at 10:01 pm

    Uh. No. I did not indicate ANYTHING by mentioning Littleton, I simply said it REMINDED me of a HIGH SCHOOL I ATTENDED THERE. NO Columbine reference was made, whatsoever. Had I meant Columbine, I would have fucking said it.

  8. kev April 30, 2001 at 10:07 pm

    I guess I didn’t realize that when Littleton is mentioned, Columbine is the first thing the rest of the world thinks of. Which is where the confusion lies.

  9. gumby May 1, 2001 at 12:28 am

    i apologize. someone who is very close to me knew the shooters at Columbine. i guess it’s just touchy

  10. kev May 1, 2001 at 9:44 am

    I should have been a little more precise in my wording, though. 🙂 sorry about the misunderstanding. :/

  11. ddmmyy April 30, 2001 at 12:30 pm

    Sounds like every upper middle-class suburb. (ie. Redmond, WA… South Orange County, CA… etc.)

  12. gumby April 30, 2001 at 1:02 pm

    Littleton is very much not an appropriate comparison to make.

  13. 808 April 30, 2001 at 4:06 pm

    Littleton is a little more hickish… but it’s of the same mind set as this story.

  14. kev April 30, 2001 at 4:31 pm

    gumby: Why is Littleton not an appropriate comparison? It’s what my high school there sure as fuck felt like.

  15. gumby April 30, 2001 at 9:13 pm

    by comparing this situation to littleton you are implicitly placing blame for the shootings on the kids who attended Littleton High. There are schools described as this all over the nation. The fact that the people are shitty is no excuse for what was done there.

  16. 808 April 30, 2001 at 9:23 pm

    Did he even mention “the shootings”?

  17. kev April 30, 2001 at 10:01 pm

    Uh. No. I did not indicate ANYTHING by mentioning Littleton, I simply said it REMINDED me of a HIGH SCHOOL I ATTENDED THERE. NO Columbine reference was made, whatsoever. Had I meant Columbine, I would have fucking said it.

  18. kev April 30, 2001 at 10:07 pm

    I guess I didn’t realize that when Littleton is mentioned, Columbine is the first thing the rest of the world thinks of. Which is where the confusion lies.

  19. gumby May 1, 2001 at 12:28 am

    i apologize. someone who is very close to me knew the shooters at Columbine. i guess it’s just touchy

  20. kev May 1, 2001 at 9:44 am

    I should have been a little more precise in my wording, though. 🙂 sorry about the misunderstanding. :/

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