Current Events > "why can't we make fun of transgender kids at school?"

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LightHawKnight posted...

Dont understand how any decent person votes republican anymore.

Trump and his ilk aren't like traditional Republicans. I still support progressive policies, but the charisma these candidates have is hard to resist.

2Real2Dill posted...

Trump and his ilk aren't like traditional Republicans. I still support progressive policies, but the charisma these candidates have is hard to resist.

I should also note that I didn't watch the clip. I'm just making a general statement.

2Real2Dill posted...

Trump and his ilk aren't like traditional Republicans. I still support progressive policies, but the charisma these candidates have is hard to resist.

What charisma? They are acting like fucking idiots.

DocDelicious posted...

It's not allowed, nor should it be. But it should be possible. No group should be completely immune to ridicule, just as not group should be immune to the consequences of that ridicule.

Are you always such a wonky donkey?

LightHawKnight posted...

What charisma? They are acting like fucking idiots.

and the person you are responding to is acting like a banned user :P

That pause lmao

gunplagirl posted...

Fuck her and anyone who agrees with her.

I agree

"transgendering into a different sex"

I mean ideally nobody should be getting bullied at school. Like that's just a fact.

Of course, the well has become so thoroughly poisoned that saying "children shouldn't be bullied" gets you called a snowflake. The right is obsessed with the image of power and of pulling one's self up by the bootstraps that they either don't understand or willfully ignore the reality of bullying, which is that when it becomes a systemic, everyday occurrence, it breaks people before they get a chance to build up any "mettle" to be tested. They view it as a trial by fire that only the worthy will be able to weather, and an irreplaceable part of the school system that "PC culture" is trying to artificially remove from what they view as a natural social ecosystem - the strong prey on the weak, and the ones who rise above the bullying are stronger for the experience. Which requires you to forget about the ones who didn't persevere, who were broken by the ordeal - because by that logic, they were always going to be the weak small fish for the sharks' food chain.

Of course, I have my own reservations about anti-bullying policies - namely that they often aren't actually enforced all that stringently, and at the end of the day the kids who make the most fuss - who are usually the little shits doing the bullying - get results weighted in their favor while the kids they bully into silence tend to endure it and try to disengage as much as possible. But with that being said, it's almost better to make a hollow gesture that you don't deliver on than to outright complain about how people should be able to bully other people.

More than anything, I think it belies a significant lack of empathy and a lack of personal suffering to make a statement like this. When someone says "Why can't children make fun of other kids at school?", that tells me that they weren't bullied. It tells me that you were either a bully, you were bullied as a child and you became so vindictive that you'd rather let countless generations of children suffer like you did as a way of coping with what happened to you rather than lessen the burden that bullying puts onto them, or you're an oblivious brainwashed prick who's let a sterile political ideology of "might makes right, survival of the fittest, the natural order is that some people are baitfish and other people are sharks and you can't mess with nature" override your sense of empathy and decency.

But to specifically single out any group who already cops a disproportionate lashing for who they are - whether they be gay, transgender, immigrants, redheads, short, tall, disabled, Asian, black, Hispanic - makes this so much worse. Even as a white guy in rural Australia, I got shit on so much for reasons I didn't understand. I still don't understand why I was different in the way that I was that led to the amount of bullying I suffered. Fucking imagine being trans and having some bigoted little shithead call you slurs and beat you up for being queer. Imagine being black or muslim around some dumb fuck trailer trash kids, or some snide little prick whose dad owns a company and thinks black people and Muslims are ruining the country.

Even without being a minority group, bullying is a disgusting and deeply wrong practice that needs to be curbed with education and empathy. To incite bullying against a minority group, especially as an adult? It is nothing short of evil. The question should never be "why can't we make fun of transgender kids". It should never fucking be "why can't children bully other children anymore". The question should be on how to improve conditions for all children, academically and emotionally. You could fight for better funding for the education sector, who along with nursing see the most significant budget cuts. You could fight to end zoning, where low income neighbourhoods get the least amount of funding while high income areas get the lion's share, and low income kids can't go to high income schools even if their schoolwork is perfect.

How in the name of everloving fuck do you make the world a better place for any child by asking why schools won't let children be bullies any more? That alone is callous and evil. To single out any minority in that statement is fucked up on a whole other level, and I hope having realised what she was saying, this woman can begin to fully comprehend what sort of reprehensible lows her lifepath has brought her to and possibly course-correct to put her energy towards causes that actually do aim to make school life better for children.

What a fucking witch.

I'd name a comment about how these people are going full mask-off with their bigotry, except the last few years have proven that they never go mask on in the first place.

I think the pause was her stopping herself from saying more

That pause made my skin crawl.

I still don't understand why some lgbt vote conservative