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KitSileya

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Reply to Ken Burch (Original post)

Sun Jun 15, 2014, 05:13 AM

Jun 2014

A very good theory. It is also the same ideology that thinks trigger warnings are for wussies, instead of being information given to people so that they can themselves choose whether they want to engage in it at the present moment. Anything that make people better able to decide what they will accept is dangerous, apparently.

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A theory about why some people DON'T want schools to fight bullying: [View all] Ken Burch Jun 2014 OP

Betcha all the 1%ers were bullies in school...... AngryDem001 Jun 2014 #1

To the greatest threads with you! KitSileya Jun 2014 #2

I think your right on this. great insight ! fireflysky46 Jun 2014 #3

I think bullying has gotten worse since "zero-tolerance" laws came to be. alphafemale Jun 2014 #4

Scut Farkus. He had yellow eyes! longship Jun 2014 #7

Your misty-eyed good-ole-days ideas are long obsolete Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2014 #8

Social media has added a complication to the issue alphafemale Jun 2014 #15

Escalating from bullying to violence is not self-defense. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2014 #16

I acknowledged that the culture of viewing weakness with contempt is wrong alphafemale Jun 2014 #17

Your idea is completely impractical even if it were not wrong for other reasons. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2014 #18

You bore me. alphafemale Jun 2014 #19

That's all you got? Good. It's better than beating each other up. nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2014 #21

Pine cone, hunh? You would get violent against me if we ever met in person? Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2014 #20

my guess is they themselves were / are bullies Skittles Jun 2014 #5

Very insightful emsimon33 Jun 2014 #6

School administrators allow it to go on because it makes their job easier tularetom Jun 2014 #9

I think some school administrators enjoy seeing certain students getting bullied. bulloney Jun 2014 #10

Schools would have to change in many ways. knitter4democracy Jun 2014 #11

I don't think people think it through to that level. Skidmore Jun 2014 #12

Are you suggesting that being self-assertive is giving license to bullying? Nuclear Unicorn Jun 2014 #13

Encouraging learned helplessness. GoneFishin Jun 2014 #14