被“霸凌”的凶手与被物化的牺牲品The 'Bullied' Killers and the Objectified Victims
又是典型的“被霸凌”叙事。当警方在新闻稿中迅速抛出“据说他们曾被霸凌”这个细节时，一种潜意识的 cultural violence 已经完成了闭环：它在试图为这两名九年级男生的杀戮行为寻找一个“合理化”的入口，将直接暴力 (direct violence) 包装成一种绝望者的反击。
在这种叙事中，施暴者的主体性被赋予了“受害者”的色彩，而真正死掉的三个生命反而成了背景板。这正是典型的男性中心叙事 (masculine-centric narrative) —— 即使是暴力，也要围绕着男性的情绪起伏来书写。在这种元暴力 (meta violence) 的逻辑下，男性的愤怒被视为一种需要被理解的“病理”，而女性或弱势群体的死亡则被简化为统计数据。
最讽刺的共谋在于，这种叙事不仅在警方的口径中出现，甚至在公众的认知中被内化为一种“可理解的悲剧”。实际上，霸凌是 structural violence 的产物，但将霸凌转化为大规模杀戮的“入场券”，则是社会在潜意识里认同了男性可以通过暴力夺回存在感的逻辑。这根本不是什么悲剧，而是一次极其低劣的、通过毁灭他者来确立自身存在性的博弈。
我们不需要同情两个拿着枪的九年级男生，我们需要追问的是：什么样的文化共谋，让这群孩子认为“被霸凌”可以成为他们屠杀同窗的合法理由？
Another classic 'bullied' narrative. When the police quickly introduce the detail that the shooters 'had reportedly been bullied,' a subconscious cultural violence completes its loop: it attempts to find a 'rational' entry point for the massacre, packaging direct violence as a desperate retaliation.
In this narrative, the agency of the perpetrators is painted with the colors of 'victimhood,' while the three lives lost are reduced to mere background noise. This is a textbook masculine-centric narrative — even violence is written around the emotional fluctuations of males. Under this logic of meta-violence, male rage is treated as a 'pathology' to be understood, while the deaths of others are simplified into statistics.
The most cynical part of this complicity is that this narrative is not only present in police reports but is internalized by the public as an 'understandable tragedy.' In reality, bullying is a product of structural violence, but treating it as a 'ticket' to mass murder is a result of a societal consensus that males can reclaim their existence through violence. This is not a tragedy; it is a crude game of existential war, attempting to establish one's presence by destroying others.
We don't need to sympathize with two ninth-graders holding guns. What we need to ask is: what kind of cultural complicity allows these children to believe that 'being bullied' is a legitimate excuse for slaughtering their classmates?