"There's also another kind of violence that we're going to have to think about. It's not necessarily the physical violence, but the violence that we perpetrate on each other in other ways," he said, and goes on to catalogue other forms of "violence."
There's the "verbal violence" of Imus.
There's "the violence of men and women who have worked all their lives and suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them because their job is moved to another country."
There's "the violence of children whose voices are not heard in communities that are ignored,"
And so, Obama says, "there's a lot of different forms of violence in our society, and so much of it is rooted in our incapacity to recognize ourselves in each other."
"Another kind of violence" means he explicitly said they are not the same.
He would need to say "Just like Viginia Tech...." for him to have equated the two.
But hey, if someone is really looking for a reason to bash Obama then I guess they will dig until they find one.
It sounds like the classic, how can I get your attention long enough to comment about one thing but what I really want to talk about is racism and violence to women. But boy was he stretching the lead in from Psychopathic murder spree to a verbal annoyance, like Imus.
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