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ahumanlikeyou t1_jaa1jya wrote

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

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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