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13 Oct 2014, 3:09 pm

Then maybe they shouldn't partake in such petty BS



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14 Oct 2014, 1:22 am

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Brings to mind how Mittens Romney and his high school chums had bullied a gay kid years before, holding him down and cutting off - I believe - his dyed bangs. That kid lived with the trauma for the rest of his life, and Mittens absolutely refused to come clean about having been an assh*le jock in school. Even Obama admitted how as a child, he used to pick on a little girl, and how he now regrets it.


True, it's interesting that a number of high profile male politicians here in Australia such as our prime minister Tony Abbott and even the left wing opposition leader Bill Shorten have both been bullies or accused of being bullies as well. I think it's also personality trait of people entering high office.



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14 Oct 2014, 1:28 am

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I read the article.
I saw nothing that indicated they did that because he's autistic.
I saw nothing about prior instances of them singling him out for being autistic.
His autism may have been a factor but to me it's looking more like a practical joke than bullying.
Just from this I can't see where the suspensions were warranted, especially for the coach

I don't think you need to be brain surgeon to interpret the two seniors picked on him for "special" treatment because he was vulnerable and probably could not resist or fight back when getting duct taped. That's what bullies do.

They didn't take pictures or put them on social media. The ?victim? :roll: even said he asked them not to take pictures and they didn?t. Some bullies, eh? :roll: .


The bullies "attempted" to take a photo, I'll bet a couple of million the pic would have ended up on facebook like some type of trophy.



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14 Oct 2014, 1:57 am

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Are you implying that we're using the word "bullying" to shut Raptor up? Are you seriously trying to say that the jocks who taped up the kid weren't really bullies?!?!


I'm saying it's become a loaded term, and seems to trigger a Pavlovian response amongst a large portion of the WP community, inevitably leading to jock-bashing and the reliving of ancient history that often bears little to no resemblance to the even being discussed, along with some rather disturbing amounts of anger directed at children by ostensible adults. I have similar feelings about the word 'sociopath', which is becoming severely over-applied, especially in threads about teens and their (mis)behavior.


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14 Oct 2014, 9:14 am

cyberdad wrote:
Raptor wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
I read the article.
I saw nothing that indicated they did that because he's autistic.
I saw nothing about prior instances of them singling him out for being autistic.
His autism may have been a factor but to me it's looking more like a practical joke than bullying.
Just from this I can't see where the suspensions were warranted, especially for the coach

I don't think you need to be brain surgeon to interpret the two seniors picked on him for "special" treatment because he was vulnerable and probably could not resist or fight back when getting duct taped. That's what bullies do.

They didn't take pictures or put them on social media. The ?victim? :roll: even said he asked them not to take pictures and they didn?t. Some bullies, eh? :roll: .


The bullies "attempted" to take a photo, I'll bet a couple of million the pic would have ended up on facebook like some type of trophy.


Wut? They either did or they didnt and in this case they didnt unless you can find evidence otherwise.


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14 Oct 2014, 1:38 pm

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19 Oct 2014, 11:11 am

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20 Oct 2014, 2:23 pm

It's starting to look like this will turn out better for him than I had expected.
Maybe there's some hope for humanity after all. :)


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