Left over programming from their vulnerable days of grade school and our great escapade to defeat America's biggest enemy, bullying. Well at least that's what the TV said. That movement came right after the drug free red ribbon thingy. So that word bully takes them back to their worst days of being in fear of what they believed to be the their greatest enemy ever. The grade school bully. They want as far away from that title as possible. Its literally worst than Hitler in their little hearts and subconscious.
The problem with anti bullying is the same with states that don't have stand your ground or castle laws. The victim is always punished more for defending themselves than the bully ever is.
In middle school, one day I actually fought my bully back, left him a crying and bruised mess. The principal took me in, ex military, told me I had to be punished but that I did the right thing and spent about a half hour talking to me about his school days and the mental side of fighting
Same story here bud. I handled a bully in highschool 2003. Principal was happy as shit. Even happier I was nice to the guy and didn't bully back. Still had to suspend me and I also got assault charges that came with 6months probabtion and i had to write a big ass essay about violence.
Fiance apparently reduced a bully to a sobbing mess without laying a hand on them. Principal was like, "I don't know what you did, but fix it," after they found the person blubbering in a closet.
This and their entire perspective of the world has been defined to be a pecking order of where people are regarding institutional power and its abuse. Bullying and “punching down” on someone is a big no-no, unless when they do it. But even then, if they’re in the process of doing it and you call them out on it it will cause a brief crack in their cognitive dissonance... enough that they may back off.
In my day nothing was done about real bullying. My life was threatened on more than one occassion for speaking out against drugs and alcohol (my dad was a major alcoholic whom I wasn’t allowed to see or contact during my teen years) when I was in high school because of police busting parties where drugs and underage drinking were I was automatically blamed for things I had no knowledge of.
I was told by my parents (mom and stepdad) that under no circumstances was I ever to fight back even under circumstances such as kidnapping or rape (their school of thought was that it would get you killed). I know they were dead wrong now.
Left over programming from their vulnerable days of grade school and our great escapade to defeat America's biggest enemy, bullying. Well at least that's what the TV said. That movement came right after the drug free red ribbon thingy. So that word bully takes them back to their worst days of being in fear of what they believed to be the their greatest enemy ever. The grade school bully. They want as far away from that title as possible. Its literally worst than Hitler in their little hearts and subconscious.
Or like the ring of power, "the one word to rule them all."
The problem with anti bullying is the same with states that don't have stand your ground or castle laws. The victim is always punished more for defending themselves than the bully ever is.
In middle school, one day I actually fought my bully back, left him a crying and bruised mess. The principal took me in, ex military, told me I had to be punished but that I did the right thing and spent about a half hour talking to me about his school days and the mental side of fighting
Same story here bud. I handled a bully in highschool 2003. Principal was happy as shit. Even happier I was nice to the guy and didn't bully back. Still had to suspend me and I also got assault charges that came with 6months probabtion and i had to write a big ass essay about violence.
Fiance apparently reduced a bully to a sobbing mess without laying a hand on them. Principal was like, "I don't know what you did, but fix it," after they found the person blubbering in a closet.
Their (cold, shriveled) little hearts.
This and their entire perspective of the world has been defined to be a pecking order of where people are regarding institutional power and its abuse. Bullying and “punching down” on someone is a big no-no, unless when they do it. But even then, if they’re in the process of doing it and you call them out on it it will cause a brief crack in their cognitive dissonance... enough that they may back off.
In my day nothing was done about real bullying. My life was threatened on more than one occassion for speaking out against drugs and alcohol (my dad was a major alcoholic whom I wasn’t allowed to see or contact during my teen years) when I was in high school because of police busting parties where drugs and underage drinking were I was automatically blamed for things I had no knowledge of.
I was told by my parents (mom and stepdad) that under no circumstances was I ever to fight back even under circumstances such as kidnapping or rape (their school of thought was that it would get you killed). I know they were dead wrong now.