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Originally Posted by Dezzy
Why are you so hesitant to acknowledge the syrian boy as a victim? You keep ignoring what's in front of you to pretend that this was a fight instead of a bullying incident.
All you are doing is normalising bullying and you seem to be defending it by passing it off as something natural. It's quite suspect. You mentioned that your 'fights' never became news in your youth and given what your interpretation of what 'fights' consist of, it makes me wonder whether you were a bully and that's why you are hesitant to call this what it is because it's something you were guilty of as a child.
This wasn't a fight and calling it so will not change the facts, you're just spreading misinformation to suit your own agenda. This is an incident of bullying and trying to talk around it and vindicate the bully of blame by making out that they were both in the wrong won't work because the truth of the matter is common knowledge.
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You see, your problem isn't with this story, your problem is with me and about you trying to virtue signal.
If you look back at my posts in this thread, you'll see my first post was sarcastically mocking the media. My second post in this thread was again having a go at the media, for creating hysteria and the consequences of it
I've also said in one of my posts in this thread (post 36) '"i'm not saying that's acceptable' and it's not, but there are school disciplinary procedures to deal with this kind of incident, it's not a matter for the media to drum up public hysteria, and that was my point from the start.
Let's look at the incident, which yes, was not acceptable.
The bigger lad threw the little lad to the ground, now let's be honest, the big lad, if he really wanted to, could have punched and kicked him on the ground, but he didn:t, he squirted some water in his face and then let him go. Why would that be a national news headline?
You want me to admit the Syrian boy is a victim, but how do I know what lead up to the incident, how do I know that earlier in the day he wasn't mouthing off to the other boy, or am I just supposed to believe that the boy was attacked for no reason?
And again on the normalising part, I agree, it would be great if we could eliminate bullying, but I believe that it's impossible in a free world, and these incidents will always happen. That's not my fault, it's reality.