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@FoodEatsI, online bullying nowadays is easily combated by simply blocking naysayers. Bullying in person at school, a bit trickier. And if students dont reach out to staff, the problems will persist....this is coming from a hs teacher. Most issues stem from online issues that manifest into irl porblems for kids at school... but many issues are not directly reported. Thats why I actively tell my students limit your social media to close friends and family....or get off completely.
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@biolojist, they did it in front of teachers and the assistant principal knew. Yet nothing changed. Explain to me exactly how that’s “tricky”. And this was before everyone had iPhones, we had AOL and slide out keyboard phones. And Facebook wasn’t created till my last year of middle school.... Now I feel old...
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@Nurse Joy, I'll take some mean words over getting jumped by 5 people and held down and beaten with traffic cones any day. I don't get this, "Words are violence and hurt." No. They don't. Getting physically assaulted hurts. Getting called names is just annoying. People are so much stronger then they can ever realize. But they allow something as meaningless and pointless as "verbal abuse" dictate their whole life. It absolutely baffles me. Here's a trick a friend used when they were being verbally assaulted by their family. They pretended/invisioned they were a duck and all those big bad mean words was water rolling off their back. Really helped them get through some tough times. I was thankfully born with the don't give a fvck gene and was and has never been bothered by "verbal abuse". No matter how viscous or persistent.
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Online video games When I was a kid... Them: "I f***** you mother last night pussy @$$ f@g n***** c0k suck loser. Go kill your self, nobody likes you" Me: "noob" Today... Them: "you suck, uninstall" Game journalist: "I was totally a victim of a hate crime, it was of course because I am LGBTQLMNOP+ because I'm a guy and I once saw another guy shirtless and was not grossed out. Give me GoFundMe money to help with my trauma"
Words are violence. Silence is also violence. Basically don’t think or speak for yourself.