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aden_feifdom t1_ja93005 wrote

Reply to comment by Mini-salt in Student charged after bullied New Jersey school girl takes her own life by r4816

i disagree, kids have it much better than previous generations thanks to bullying awareness and legislation. when i was a kid, no one cared.

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Horse_Dad t1_ja9v665 wrote

I will also disagree. When we were bullied as kids, it usually ended in the school yard. With social media today, kids can get bullied 24/7 and some of those things can live online forever, as was the case here. In a lot of ways, things are much worse. Add to that, schools are powerless to address things that happen outside of school and limited in how they address things that happen in school.

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mn_49ers t1_jaa0rj5 wrote

Really good point. Kids can’t escape it and schools don’t want/can’t police social media. But I’m glad they are charging the student.

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ahumanlikeyou t1_jaa1jya wrote

Social media for sure makes some cases worse, but overall it's so much better than it used to be

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ThatsNotFennel t1_jaad3zw wrote

In what way is it better overall? Give me one meaningful metric where kids today are safer today than they were 20 years ago.

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ahumanlikeyou t1_jaae598 wrote

HAHA! God, you clearly don't have a kid or are massively out of touch. In the 90s, we went through hell! "Gay' and 'retard' were slurs and we used them like oxygen. My kid now reports experiences that are miles beyond anything that could have happened in my day. Massive improvements. Huge amounts of social sensitivity, sensitivity to pronouns, sensitivity to eating disorders, stress, different financial situations. Being heavy or attractive are not as important as they used to be. Of course all of this stuff is also the subject of bullying, still. I'm not saying it's gone away. It still happens all the time. But it is SO much better than it used to be. If you think otherwise, you don't remember what we went through.

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ThatsNotFennel t1_jaahiji wrote

The wrong way for you to start your argument was 'HAHA!'

I'm going to assume everything after that is either a lie or hyperbole. Violence and bullying has gone up in our school district and in every district surrounding ours. Children have been hospitalized. A football game was cancelled due to a shooting threat.

Sure, it's all anecdotal - but that's the only thing I have going for me. I could care less about in-person name calling. Social media is creating a dangerous environment for children.

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ahumanlikeyou t1_jacg4mm wrote

Sorry, that was rude of me. I was just astonished that anyone could think there is absolutely no dimension in which bullying had improved

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Batchagaloop t1_ja9kjtm wrote

Agreed, as the great Bill Clinton once said "Follow the trend lines, not the headlines"

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Barbi3D0ll t1_ja9dz21 wrote

Personally, I disagree, as someone who gets/has been bullied I’ve been through a lot of heartless shit.

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smd908 t1_ja9o9f8 wrote

Everyone has.. there’s not one person on this earth who hasn’t or won’t be bullied at one point in their life.

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