Being a High School Goth the Day After Columbine 🦇 Ruadhán 1334
Channel: Ruadhán 1334
Date: 2019-04-21

I think this is officially my longest edited and uploaded video, right now.

Things weren't great for us, on the 19th of April in 1999, but literally two days later, and for no other reason than a lying County Pig in the Rocky Mountains and a sensationalist news media that had already demonstrated an unhealthy fetishisation of teenagers into dark alternative subcultures, almost my entire school went from finding us mostly harmless curiosities, who were sometimes emotionally volatile, always good for a laugh, and probably more of a threat to ourselves than anything, to imagining us nothing short of the worst possible risk to school safety, and they made sure we knew it.

This was a really hard video to make, not only emotionally, but also technologically (my phone seemed dead set on thwarting every attempt for the last couple of weeks), and I highly doubt that I will be taking about this again - at least not for a few more years.

Yeah, I probably could have broken this into two videos, but... Yeah, no. I just want to speak my piece all at once. Just get it done and over with.

This was filmed in three parts:

Part 1 - an explanation of the High School social hierarchy, at mine and literally every other high school

Part 2 - debunking the misconceptions and outright lies about the Columbine High massacre

Part 3 - my own experiences. This is about half of the video.

For Further Viewing:

Caitlin Doherty - "Why Do We Get Columbine So Wrong?" https://youtu.be/EG0PtwYJU0M

Angela Benedict - "In the 90s We Fought to Be Goth" 

Amazon Affiliate links:
Columbine, by David Cullen https://amzn.to/2GBv1Wz
Summary and study guide for Columbine by David Cullen https://amzn.to/2VZxyjC
A Mother's Reckoning, by Sue Klebold https://amzn.to/2VcLARQ


Source links for info that you don't have to pay for:

https://vault.fbi.gov/Columbine%20High%20School%20

http://www.mtv.com/news/1427258/columbine-students-debunk-goth-ties-to-shooters-as-community-moves-on/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre

https://crimeola.com/9-forgotten-facts-april-20-1999-columbine-high-school-massacre/

https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/18/us/columbine-high-school-shootings-fast-facts/index.html

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/4/20/15369442/columbine-anniversary-cassie-bernall-rachel-scott-martyrdom

https://www.therichest.com/shocking/15-facts-most-people-dont-know-about-the-columbine-massacre/

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-wax/7-myths-about-the-columbine-shooting

https://www.buzzfeed.com/davecullen/stop-naming-mass-shooters-in-reporting?utm_term=.mmZqpoDBN#.peGW5Av3b

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-10/14/026r-101499-idx.html?noredirect=on

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mass-shootings-are-contagious/

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c8c4b79e4b0d7f6b0f38e58

https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/search_for_truth_at_columbine_2.2.pdf

Oklahoma City Bombing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing

Branch Davidian siege at Waco, Texas: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege


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