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ebon_bear

About bullying, can we talk?

Oct 11, 2010 08:13

Advance notice: Forgive me if I get emotional here.

So, I've been away for a while. What's brought me back now has been the recent spate of kids killing themselves because they were being bullied. In discussing it with someone on another forum, I was asked if bullying was actually worse now than it was before and yo yo yo, let me speak on this 'cos ( Read more... )

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jaqfrog October 11 2010, 13:04:00 UTC

>I was trying not to involve politics in this

Sorry, it's impossible to not involve politics in anything.
It took me some years, maybe into my mid-late 20s, to realise this, but it's a fact. And it annoys me that people don't want to watch the news and understand what politics is about, or teach their kids about the way the world works, because it does affect them. Every single day.

ebon_bear October 11 2010, 13:16:12 UTC

I actually agree with that entirely. Everything both affects and is affected by politics. Partlu due to the direct effects of laws and attitudes but also because the sharp division between private greed (the Tories/used-to-be-Liberals)and collective responsibility (Labour, kinda, sorta) pretty much encapsulates the interplay between humanity's noble impulses and our lizard brain selfishness ( ... )