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Maraya1969

(22,479 posts)
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 12:00 PM Feb 2020

Bullying kids now using Trump rhetoric as a weapon

Please share this with your Trump loving family members.

https://deadstate.org/study-finds-kids-are-now-using-trumps-rhetoric-to-bully-their-classmates/

An intensive study conducted by The Washington Post has revealed that children in the U.S. are adapting President Donald Trump’s racist and xenophobic rhetoric in order to bully their classmates. The newspaper analyzed 28,000 articles spanning the course of Trump’s presidency that specifically referenced elementary, middle, and high school bullying.

The analysis revealed students frequently bullied other classmates in ways that were racist and xenophobic. More than 300 incidents were recorded of kids and even some staff members bullying others by using chants from his campaign rallies, and in some instances, by using his name.

Out of those instances, 75 percent involved inflammatory language that was directed at Hispanic, Muslim, and black students.

In one particularly shocking instance of bullying, a 12-year-old told a Mexican-American classmate that “all Mexicans should go back behind the wall.” When the student’s mother approached the bully to ask him about the remark, he allegedly beat her unconscious.

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Bullying kids now using Trump rhetoric as a weapon (Original Post) Maraya1969 Feb 2020 OP
Indoctrination. ...nt 2naSalit Feb 2020 #1
Hate starts at the top. Initech Feb 2020 #2
Kicking again. I think these threads need more exposure than Dems hating on Dems Maraya1969 Feb 2020 #3
To the Greatest Page with you. n/t area51 Feb 2020 #4
people have lost bdamomma Feb 2020 #5

Initech

(100,068 posts)
2. Hate starts at the top.
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 01:56 PM
Feb 2020

Trump has unleashed an entire new generation of haters. And this is not good or funny. It's scary.

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