record timeline (not full) of the times dylan and eric were bullied
- “The athletes threw Skittles candy and food at them,” said John Savage.
- Hoffschneider and his friends surrounded Harris and Klebold’s table and Hoffschneider taunted them, “Why don’t you two fags kiss? You guys are such sweethearts.”
- “Columbine is a clean, good place except for those rejects (Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold and other outcasts) … Sure, we teased them. But what do you expect with kids who come to school with weird hairdos and horns on their hats? It’s not just the jocks; the whole school’s disgusted with them. They’re a bunch of homos… If you want to get rid of someone usually you tease ‘em. So the whole school would call them homos…,” said Columbine student Evan Todd. Peers and friends, including Brooks Brown and Devon Adams, documented that both shooters were frequent targets of severe verbal and physical harassment.
Jocks and mainstream students frequently targeted them in the hallways, calling them "ugly," "weird," "fags," and "rejects".
The "Evan Todd" In an infamous post-massacre interview with Time Magazine, wounded Columbine student Evan Todd openly admitted to the toxic school culture, stating that mainstream students routinely teased and degraded Klebold, Harris, and their friends for having "weird hairdos," calling them "sick" and looking to "get rid of someone" through targeted harassment.
Teacher Involvement: Some student statements in the official Columbine 11k investigation files alleged that the toxic environment was so normalised that even certain teachers and coaches occasionally participated in or ignored the verbal degradation of atypical students.
- They were sitting in the library wearing their ridiculous heavy black coats on a warm spring day last April. A group of girls was snickering at the table next to them, and Eric finally asked what they were laughing at. One of them told him, ‘You guys look alike, talk alike and are always together. We just want to know when you’re getting married!’ A look of rage came over Eric’s face and he made a fist at the girl. ‘Shut up!’ he shouted. Dylan got up and screamed, ‘You’re all so stupid! Everyone in this school is stupid! You better watch it!’ They both stormed out of the library, kicking chairs as they went.
- According to Dustin Thurmon, teachers did not intervene when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were harassed in class.
- Dylan Klebold was made fun of in gym for being uncoordinated.
- Eric Harris was relentlessly made fun of in gym class because he was bad at sports and refused to take off his shirt due to intense embarrassment over his chest wall deformity, which drew taunts and hostility from other students. In one instance, he was held down in gym class by several people and battered in the face by a volleyball.
- Former Columbine student Brooks Brown recounted one incident:
‘I was smoking cigarettes with [Klebold and Harris] when a bunch of football players drove by, yelled insults, and threw a glass bottle that shattered near Dylan’s feet. I was pissed, but Eric and Dylan didn’t even flinch. ‘Don’t worry about it, man,’ Dylan said. ‘It happens all the time.’“
- Once, a student reported them to the administration for allegedly having brought drugs to school, just to humiliate them for a laugh. Harris and Klebold were dramatically removed from class and searched – as were their lockers and cars. No drugs were found, but the damage was done.
- One female student recounted how, when she was a Columbine freshman, some jocks spotted her talking to Dylan Klebold in the school hallway between classes. After she walked away from him, one of the bullies slammed her against the lockers and called her a “fag lover.” None of the students came to help her – and when asked later why she didn’t report the incident to the administration, she replied, “It wouldn’t do any good because they wouldn’t do anything about it.”
- In his book No Easy Answers, Brown described students surrounding Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in the cafeteria and squirting ketchup packets all over them while shouting slurs, but he did not mention tampons. Another Columbine classmate, Chad Laughlin, stated in later interviews that he witnessed the tail end of an incident where seniors pelted Dylan Klebold specifically with ketchup-covered tampons in the commons. Dylan’s mother recounted in her memoir that Dylan came home stained with ketchup and told her it was the absolute worst day of his life, aligning with the severity of a major hazing event.
- Sara Schweitzberger, 15, had a gym class with Mr. Klebold, and said it was obvious he felt socially ostracized. “He really felt unloved,” she said. “He wasn’t so bad. He was lonely. I just wish I could give him a hug and tell him that I care.”
- Newsweek quotes a classmate saying that the two often walked the halls of Columbine “with their heads down, because if they looked up they’d get thrown into lockers and get called a fag.” (can be seen being done by eric in “Eric in ‘clmbn’”
- Because of his distinct physical profile—exceptionally tall, very thin, noticeably long "gangly" fingers, a long face, and a prominent chin—pathologists and researchers have frequently speculated whether Klebold had Marfan syndrome. While never medically confirmed, these distinct, non-traditional features made him an easy target for cruel high school peers.
- Despite some peers recalling him as someone who could look decent when cleaned up (such as in his prom photos), Klebold suffered from cripplingly low self-esteem. His private journals reveal a teenager paralyzed by social anxiety, a desperate longing for love, and an intense belief that he was inherently broken, unlovable, and physically unappealing to girls.
There's also two passages in Eric's journal where he makes mention of getting picked on, plus there's the incident where Dan Lab punched him in the face.
11/8/98 in Eric's journal:
"Everyone is always making fun of me because of how I look, how fucking weak I am and shit, well I will get you all back, ultimate fucking revenge here."
"Whatever I do people make fun of me, and sometimes directly to my face. I’ll get revenge soon enough. Fuckers shouldn’t have ripped on me so much huh!"
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