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Man I don’t think they were racist. Everyone says some racist stuff around their friends but I don’t think they drove around screaming the n word and mistreating minorities.

If they thought it and made nasty comments among themselves it’s the low key version of screaming at and mistreating minorities publicly. Racism is racism just there are varying degrees of it but the intent is all the same To diminish and undermine others unlike yourself.  To view minorities or people of other cultures or religions as wrong or subhuman from themselves. “Us vs Them” mentalities. Dylan and Eric had those they were just sneaky and circuitous as to who they exorcised their infantile, budding beginnings of racist ideology around . While Dylan may not have been as fervent about it all as Eric, he’s just as guilty for participating. Look at all the hidden racism that has come out of the wood works of this country since Dump.  Before him, it was all still there just a lot less out in the public. 

dylan would never have been happy without finding his ‘soulmate.’

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If he was happy around her he might already consider her to be his ‘soulmate’. Difficult to know how Dylan really defined how precisely he’d know his ‘soulmate’ and in reality, how fleeting that feeling might be based on how his relationship experiences evolved  He was naive and idealistic about how love should be and had no real experience to compare his value system to.

Do you think the boys would have gotten married if they found the right girl?

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Provided they consider her to be the ‘right one’  yes. But marriage in their twenties probably not.  I don’t see early marriages though. Picky and cautious. There is something about acutely, overly aware, intelligent people that make them want to wait and shop around.  Plus, they needed to sort themselves out as individuals first.

Dylan and Eric would care about looks more than personality

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I’d say they wanted both just like any guy would ideally speaking but I think personality would win out if it came down to a good looking vapid chick. Even for Eric would went for Brandi – who was just that –  I think upon dating her over time, he’d get bored with her limited level of intelligence. There would be no challenge and he would probably start acted out to sabotage the dating.  Certainly for Dylan, personality and other characteristics besides just looks were important too.  But of course, make no mistake, the first thing a teenage dude is going to initially be attracted by is physicality…then approachable friendliness, sense of humor, wit/smarts, etc. 

Thinking of eric and dylan not being friends hurt me :’^)). I kinda see where you are coming from but why do you think they wouldn’t?

Because they were very different people, opposites that complimented within the commonality of their shared loneliness and pain as outcasted teenage boys.  It’s not exactly something substantial to forge a healthy, long standing relationship as they grew and mature and took on new life interests and acquired new relationships.  The chasm in their destructive common ground would widen until there was nothing left to sustain their friendship.  

Plus, I feel too like if they saw one another while together in town visiting parents and whatnot that seeing each other might be a painful reminder of their past and what they’d fantasized about doing.  If things were going well in their own lives, they wouldn’t want to get sucked back into that old vibe of how they related and influenced one another in hanging out together. 

Being raised in a military household meant that Eric had trouble expressing emotions

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Eric was in touch with his feelings and he knew what he felt very deeply and strongly but within the context of the military family he was born and raised into, those feelings were discouraged, minimized, stifled and negated.  This is why he began to act out outside of his home in environments he felt he could exercise his own say over and right under his old man’s nose.

Eric and Dylan would’ve drifted apart after high school and their friendship would not have lasted.

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Eventually, over the years they would drift apart with differing interests and friends.  I know it probably makes y’all feel kinda sad but honestly, that would be a good thing for both of them.  🙂  Given time, they would grow and change and mature into men and view things differently as they acquired more worldly experience outside of the realm of Littleton.

Crystal ball gazing 18 years on with the two of them in their late thirties.. They might have searched and friended each other on stodgy old Facebook just for the hell of it, to see where one another are at with their lives, to see their choice in girl friend or wife and kids. But of course, this is hypothetical had they both survived up to 2017.

i know you might disagree but i dont think theyd be into the exact same kind of music if they were teens in 2017. also i can kinda see the dudes finding some modern underground rap appealing if inserted into this time period to be honest. the 90s were a whole different reality when it comes to teenage culture too so i kinda find all definite opinions on what they would be like pointless

Exactly right, it is pointless. And I have been answering those Qs in relation to the factual information we have on what the two liked in music, movies, etc.   People ask me, mentioning musical groups or movies that they themselves like,  holding out hope that I will say the boys might like it too. But trying to hypothetically guess what they’d like now in 2017 (without using their tastes from the nineties as a guide to measure by) means it could be absolutely anything under the sun, honestly. Your guess is as good as mine as the next persons.  Eric and Dylan in 2017 might not even be even remotely close to the Eric and Dylan we know from the nineties.  Two boys growing up in completely different times and environments with different pop culture, music influences, more advanced technology, etc., etc.  It’s impossible to please everyone playing this game of ‘what would they like/be like now’.  I’m pretty frustrated and weary of these questions and have decided to stop as people take my responses far too personally. I’ve given my speculations and there are plenty of those posts out there.

For the agree/disagree Eric and Dylan never claimed racism before 1998, they used sexism, racism and homophobia as an excuse to hate people for no reason and as a way to make themselves seem more hateful. Kind of as a way to get “ready” for the shooting. Sorry if this is confusing.

They acquired their racism along with anything else that was politically incorrect to go against the grain of their pristine community.  Also, too, some of the racist slurs were unfortunately just slang used.  Thing is though, they pushed the envelope a step beyond every day slang into making racial slurs to leverage their self empowerment as being “better than certain others” since they were considered the outcast scum of the school.  

Did Eric and Dylan have minority friends? This includes women and LGBT+ people.

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*not LGBT+.  That was not even A thing in 90′s white bread suburban high schools other than ‘gay’  ‘Fag’ was used regularly all across the board for anyone not liked. You can only imagine the stigma there would be for being inclusive with ‘in between’ type friends.  The boys were hyper masculine to compensate for being called ‘fags’ on a regular basis.  Therefore, friends needed to be either two varieties: girls that liked boys and boys that liked girls.