Episode 124 - École Polytechnique: The Montreal Massacre

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🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The 6th of December 2019 marks the 30 year anniversary of the Montreal massacre, a dark day in Canadian history. It was the day that gunman Marc Lépine walked into an engineering school and shot dead 14 female students.

As he shot the women, he exclaimed that he hated feminists, and that feminists had ruined his life. This sentiment was backed up in his manifesto. A manifesto that shares a great number of themes with that of Isla Vista killer Elliot Roger, or the motivations the 2018 Toronto van killer, Alek Minnassian.

But with the continued glorification and martyrdom of the likes of Lépine, Rodger and Minassian - how far have we really come?

References:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spsAJ76rP3I&t=816s

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/03/montreal-massacre-canadas-feminists-remember

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.4435607/this-is-how-one-survivor-described-the-montreal-massacre-the-day-after-the-shooting-1.4435613

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/polytechnique-tragedy

https://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/montreal-massacre

https://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/learn/resources/women-violence-and-montréal-massacre-lee-lakeman

https://www.flare.com/news/remember-the-women-of-the-montreal-massacre-by-more-than-just-their-names/

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/polytechnique-massacre-lives-forever-changed

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mass-shooting-reshaped-canadian-debate-about-guns-and-political-identity-180962013/

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/montreal-massacre-ecole-polytechnique-trudeau_ca_5cd57b57e4b07bc729787a6d

https://globalnews.ca/news/6187845/montreal-massacre-victims/

https://www.therecord.com/opinion-story/5184229-montreal-massacre-changed-us-forever/

http://theconversation.com/the-1989-polytechnique-massacre-was-an-act-of-terrorism-against-all-women-108260

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0:00.0	Prime members, you can listen to Redhanded early and ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:16.7	I'm Hannah. I'm Sruti and welcome to Redhanded episode 120-something. I don't even know anymore.
0:23.7	I have to look at it every time. I write it out to post the episode. I'm like, I have no idea.
0:28.9	I have literally no idea how many less than no idea. No clue. Not a foggyest. Not a foggyest.
0:35.6	I'm going to guess 124.
0:37.0	It's been a long week. I know it's a Monday morning. Last week was a long week.
0:41.5	Yeah, very, very long. I felt like I was either permanently drunk or hungover.
0:45.2	Like it just really... there was no in between.
0:48.0	There was no in between, but it was all very important work-related business that we were doing.
0:52.7	Of course. Yeah, it's true. It is actually true.
0:56.0	How good was Friday night? Those of you who follow us on social media, you will know what a wonderful Friday we had.
1:01.5	We had a bit of a woman crush Friday. Our lovely promoter who did our UK tour kindly offered us a while back
1:10.0	actually these tickets to go see Liam Gallagher. We were like, yeah, definitely it's in the calendar.
1:14.4	And when we went there, who was there in the little suite that we were in?
1:18.6	But my favourite murder. Well, not my favourite, Karen and Georgia.
1:21.6	From my favourite murder. And Vince.
1:23.6	God, can I just say they are just like the loveliest ladies ever.
1:28.0	Yeah, we had such a good time. We got the tube together. We did.
1:31.6	That was my favourite bit of the night. It was free of the night.
1:34.6	We had a great time and we sat in this little suite with these teenagers who kept trying to throw themselves off the balcony.
1:39.8	It was all very strange. We sent them back to the US with a very embarrassing opinion of British people.
1:45.7	There was a lot of piss throwing teenagers jumping off balconies.
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