Rachel's Challenge - General

Sorry if this has been made before, but click on this link to learn more. [url]http://www.rachelschallenge.org/[/url]

Okay before all the hate, I will defend this guy, My school did this and if you hate on it its kinda above disrespectful. Then again im not gonna stop anyone....

[QUOTE=lope;37739900]Okay before all the hate, I will defend this guy, My school did this and if you hate on it its kinda above disrespectful. Then again im not gonna stop anyone....[/QUOTE]Why would anyone hate it? That's like hating a 9/11 witness account.

[QUOTE=lope;37739900]Okay before all the hate, I will defend this guy, My school did this and if you hate on it its kinda above disrespectful. Then again im not gonna stop anyone....[/QUOTE] yeah its the internet we HATIN on everything we so EDGY fear us

Rachels challenge kinda pisses me off. They did the talk at my school, and they didn't talk about anyone who died except for Rachel, and they said that the shooter did it for Hitler just because it happened on his birthday.

[QUOTE=Exxon;37741566]Rachels challenge kinda pisses me off. They did the talk at my school, and they didn't talk about anyone who died except for Rachel, [b]and they said that the shooter did it for Hitler just because it happened on his birthday.[/b][/QUOTE]This. Fucking this. Every time I hear about those shooters they always blame it one ONE SINGULAR THING, Whether it be bullying, video games, hitler, or the media.

The school tag wasn't for the school talks, it was meant for [B]school shooting[/B]

I had to sit through one of these talks at my school. I'm against bullying as much as the next guy (probably a lot more, to be honest) but they took a normal girl who died under tragic circumstances and turn her into some sort of ridiculous martyr. The video we watched hinted that she had prescient vision and predicted the shooting or something, for fuck's sake.

i hate martyring i'm sorry she was involved in that, but the fact that she has a website and no one else does from columbine kinda gives the feeling of "your death in a shooting only matters if you are the first"

[QUOTE=LordCrypto;37742992]i hate martyring i'm sorry she was involved in that, but the fact that she has a website and no one else does from columbine kinda gives the feeling of "your death in a shooting only matters if you are the first"[/QUOTE] During the shooting here (I go to Virginia Tech) there was a solid mechanics professor, a Holocaust survivor, who was shot and killed holding the door to his classroom shut so his students could get out the windows, but there's no Liviu's Challenge. Oh also the shooting happened on Holocaust Remembrance Day

look being killed isn't very good, but martyring is taking it too far. anyone who actually gets offended by insults needs to realize that insults are constantly going to be thrown at them, even if they're the best person on earth. plus she didn't even kill herself, why is she a martyr for bullying?

Oh, god, I remember sitting through a whole presentation through this Over-rated bullshit is what I call it Yeah, its nice and sweet and noble But holy shit, it's blown way too much out of preportions

I had to sit through this crap at least twice I always found it stupid how they glorified this one girl and didn't talk about the others

[quote]"I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same. People will never know how far a little kindness can go."[/quote] I have this theory that people who are bullied should be allowed to carry tasers that home in on the genitals

[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;37742947]I had to sit through one of these talks at my school. I'm against bullying as much as the next guy (probably a lot more, to be honest) but they took a normal girl who died under tragic circumstances and turn her into some sort of ridiculous martyr. The video we watched hinted that she had prescient vision and predicted the shooting or something, for fuck's sake.[/QUOTE] At least she hasn't been turned into a cash cow by her parents like [URL="http://www.amazon.com/She-Said-Yes-Unlikely-Martyrdom/dp/0743400526"]Cassie Bernall[/URL].In case you're too lazy to look it up, it's a book called "She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom Of Cassie Bernall" written from her mother on the account that she said "Yes" when asked if she believed in god, before she was shot, when in reality that actually happened with a completely different student, Valeen Schnurr. (Guess which one has a wikipedia article and a foundation in her name, and which one doesn't) I had to read and review the book for middle school; I got in trouble for pointing out that fact as well for "being disrespectful".

I had to watch the presentation for this last year. There was quite a few girls tearing up during one of the videos. I'll be flat out fucking honest and mention that I had the hardest struggle to avoid letting loose some tears amongst my peers. No idea why I really go into it so much. But yeah, they glorify one person when there's many of other people who died too and should be remembered. Not just her because she was such an outgoing person and supposedly had all this psychic prediction shit going on (which I totally think is bullshit to get kids to buy into it)