imagine seeing a post that says “kids don’t deserve to get bullied” and thinking this is a remotely acceptable response to it
this is exactly the sort of callous, heartless mentality that makes me SICK and if i catch anyone else i follow saying this shit or sharing it uncritically i WILL hunt you down and peel you like a grape
I was relentlessly bullied for being weird (which is to mean, neurodivergent) as a child and guess what? I didn’t “learn how to not be an obnoxious weirdo”, I only started hating myself and developed an anxiety disorder which made me become straight up afraid of people, aka even more weird. So if you claim bullying is a way to teach weird kids not to be weird, you’re not just a terrible person; you’re also stupid because it doesn’t work.
Being bullied didn’t teach me “not everyone likes the things you like and there’s a time and place to talk about your interests. Be respectful of others.” Which was the lesson I was supposed to learn as a kid.
Instead it taught me “your interests are garbage and nobody wants to hear about them shut up.”
Seriously if someone pulled me aside and taught me what I was doing wrong it would have saved me a lot of issues.
There’s a whole industry of kids’ movies where the bullied weird kids learn that being weird is okay and bullying is wrong and somehow these geniuses still side with the bullies.
It’s because they don’t see it as bullying if it’s on “the good side.” They don’t even see it as fascism if they think they’re acting for an arbitrary or abstract cause, “bigger than themselves.”
Thus why you get assholes that think it’s fascist if they get punched in the face but it’s justified if they punch first.
I remember seeing another post like this that was like “if u don’t bully the weird greasy kid they grow up to be the people who lead their gfs around on leashes in public” and like…imagine having that kind of completely twisted view of human interaction.
I never understood the mentality of the bully, and i still don’t.
