DAMIAN LILLARD TAKES A STAND AGAINST BULLYING

[VanillaGorilla]

this bullying crap is so overrated. wah wah wah. everyone is special and unique. blah blah blah.

What does bullying have to do with "everyone being special and unique"?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

What does bullying have to do with "everyone being special and unique"?

Because people assuming they are "special and unique" without putting the effort into them actually being "special and unique" turns them into pussies. And when they encounter a "bully", they can't deal with it and instead whine about being bullied.

 

[handiman]

I'm not trying to be an ass, but that doesn't make sense to me. You need a celebrity to tell you that bullying is wrong?

You're missing the bigger picture. Bullying is a pass it on kind of thing. A kid gets bullied and bullies someone else (if they can). If an awareness campaign can get 1 in 10 kids to stop bullying, start thinking down the line of how many fewer may eventually go down the bad path.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

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fuk bullying yo

 

[Natebishop3]

You're missing the bigger picture. Bullying is a pass it on kind of thing. A kid gets bullied and bullies someone else (if they can). If an awareness campaign can get 1 in 10 kids to stop bullying, start thinking down the line of how many fewer may eventually go down the bad path.

Hmm... that's an interesting way of looking at it.

 

[MARIS61]

Bullying has to stop from the top down, and that means parents need to teach their kids it's not okay. It's that simple. Unfortunately, some parents are assholes.

Parents learn it from their government.

 

[MARIS61]

Hey, I think we should implement a new policy in schools. When a kid is caught bullying, they go into the assembly of shame where they stand up in front of the school and everyone makes fun of them.

Bullies are usually quite popular among their peers, which is why they exist.

 

[NOVoodoo]

Must be some tension in the locker room... I heard LaMarcus Aldridge has taken a stand against nerds...

 

[jlprk]

Finally, someone said what I was thinking.

Parents learn it from their government.

When my father hit me, my mother said the aggression gets passed from father to son, to his son, etc. (That knowledge didn't stop her from coat hangering me sometimes.) The top of the chain of authority sets the example and it trickles down.

It's ridiculous to see the government throwing people into prison for minor things when the government, at the whim of the President, opens dozens of torture asylums around the world, brutalizing anyone for opposing American invaders abroad. Bullying won't stop at the individual level until it stops at the collective level.