Young Turks: Bully Attacks Gay Student at High School

[Hissyspit]

Run time: 04:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnEb0-pBGNc   Posted on YouTube: October 28, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 301   Posted on DU: October 28, 2011 By DU Member: Hissyspit Views on DU: 1670

 
Uploaded by TheYoungTurks on Oct 27, 2011

A gay student at Union-Scioto High School in Ohio was beaten by a bully. The attack was caught on a cellphone camera and the video was posted on Facebook. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.

[msongs]

1. other students stand by watching and do NOTHING to help victim - thats the real news nt

[YOHABLO]

2. Let's Petition the School Board

Let's get a petition up to address the punishment of this student. He should have been expelled. 3 days suspension is a joke. We can't let these actions go without some outcry ... no one in that class room came to his defense either. No one. What does this tell us about our society? I live in one fucked up country.

[Norrin Radd]

3. kr

[yoyossarian]

4. WTF? Why isn't that ASSAILANT (bully?) being arrested for ASSAULT???

He's punchin' that kid over and over and over and over and over and over and over....

Lock the psycho up, until they can put him on some meds or somethin'... that's all I'm sayin'.

[yoyossarian]

5. In the old days, the term BULLY had very different connotations...

Bullies were mostly about intimidation and the THREAT of violence... and even when it did come,
it was MILD comparatively speaking, not this sort of apeshit violence.

Maybe I'm missing something here; it's been a LONG time since I was in school, but when I
returned to this thread to see what others had said, I was surprised that no one else objected
to the term as used, as if bullying is now just one tot shy of first degree murder.

Not to mention disappointed to see so little interest in this thread overall. The fact that the
other kids didn't do anything is not that surprising, since they're kids for chrissakes... but
here on DU, no one seems to want to defend the kid either!

I know it's been a busy last few days, but still...

Pretty sad on several levels.