[Maru]

Originally Posted by Livia

Bullies will find something different in you, whether you're black, white, ginger, fat, spotty, wear glasses, dress weird... whatever it is. You don't feel worse if you happen to be a different colour and/or from another country. EVERYONE who faces senseless bullying like this is worth concern.

It seems to me that some people think it's somehow worse if it's purely racist... which this probably was. No one should suffer like this lad and his sister. No one. Not for any reason.

Yep. I wouldn't even say it's even worse for us if we're most of those things.. It's about dominating the other person as Alf says, and by the same token, about obtaining other's submission, because the bully only wins if others kowtow to their self-perceived status. Their place in the "heirarchy" though is always precipitous, which is why so much of bullying can be very brutal.