Whatever.
Get over myself? I took offense to something you said, and a mischaracterization, and that makes me a drama queen?
This isn't a "my alma mater is awesome" this is a "you are implying something about a group of people, and implying membership in that group of bad people, and since I know that group well, and am a me,bet of that group, you are thus implying something about me"...funny, that SEEMS like a reason to be bothered by something.
If you had said "seems like a connection to mid-30's Caucasian guys from Menomonee falls" (thereby taking something an individual did and implying something about a group) I would have been equally bothered.
What makes students at MIT so special that prevents the possibility that a student there from doing something horrific?
Any word on why they were at MIT?
1. They WEREN'T
AT MIT, they were
NEAR MIT...THIS is the reason the speculative bullshit amd "frat boy" "connection" hypothesizing is bad.
2. What makes it special? Um, a small community that focuses on technological solutions to problems, composed of extremely bright people with, to almost a near 100% majority doesn't stand for radicalization...yeah, total terrorist cadre there.
Is it possible, sure, but WE ALL take offense when someone implies a connection between mass shooters and OUR community (eg the "NRA certificate" chatter about mom Lanza, etc), and yet I can't take offense when someone implies a similar community connection to really bad actors based purely on circumstantial (geography, and a "frat boy" look)?
Seriously people, its not that crazy to want to defend a community of people you share something with, we do it constantly, we police what people imply about that community's "connection" to things and attempt to defend it, and we all get bothered when someone implies a connection, and now you are ostracizing me, or calling me a drama queen for doing the exact same thing? Hypocrisy much?
We all "know" certain communities or groups, and if we are part of that group, take false implications as impugning that group. All I was saying was that I took offense to it, as it was based on a FLAWED hypothesis...(frat boy look...and even if it was, do you know what the frat boy look percentage at MIT is?) that implied really bad folks were members of MY community.
Sheesh.
As for "drama queen", well, I didn't call names, nor attack individuals, only viewpoints.