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Sympathy for the Bullies: Our New Villains<\/a><\/p>\n

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barthel<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I wrote a thing for the Awl about why vilifying bullies is problematic, and how changing social conditions can shift the terms of a debate.\u00a0 (And the anti-bullying climate really is incredibly widespread – since I\u2019ve started paying attention to it I started noticing things like this<\/a> and this<\/a>.)\u00a0 I\u2019m obviously a bit ambivalent about the whole thing, so I\u2019m certainly happy to hear other people\u2019s thoughts.\u00a0 I\u2019ve had some backchannel talk since the piece went up, which I\u2019m always happy to receive, but which also makes me a little distressed about it not being part of the public debate – for instance, I\u2019ve heard of one school administrator who\u2019s asked their staff to stop referring to kids as \u201cbullies\u201d unless they\u2019re engaging in actual physical violence because it\u2019s labeling normal ol\u2019 mean kids something with a much harsher connotation that can end up shaping their behavior in the future.\u00a0 Is that a good idea?\u00a0 A bad idea?\u00a0 Depends!\u00a0 Like I say: shit is complicated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sympathy for the bullies? Novel concept, eh?<\/p>\n

Bullies are the children of an era that prominently displays tea partiers at the center of public discourse, portraying them as “Real Patriots”. Bullies are the children of an era where media shows the anti gay protests as “normal” and where “God hates fags” appears on TV screens world wide. They are the by product of the Islamophobia sweeping the West like a tsunami of vomit. They are the children of a political tactic that considers it acceptable to treat the “Other” as an invasion, as something that needs to be exterminated (anti immigration vigilantes patrolling borders?), that considers it “political speech” to throw insults at Barack Obama and casting suspicion over his nationality and his religion (as if there was something inherently wrong if he happened to be Muslim). These are the children of the Sarah Palin times, the children of growing tactics of violence to silence discourse.<\/p>\n

Bullies, at least the current virulent generation driving peers to suicide and self harm do not exist in a vacuum. They are the true exponent of contemporary social interactions in the adult world around them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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