[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Livia

It is sad that he's come from a war-torn country to be bullied here. But really, this looks like it's come as a shock to a lot of people. The bit of film where his sister is grabbed, hit, pushed to the ground... that was a weekly occurrence for me at school. Sometimes more than weekly. And it was racist.... but the school didn't see it like that and did pretty much nothing for five years. And I have no reason to believe that this kind of behaviour stopped with me and then started again with this lad. It goes on ALLLL the time. One of my nieces was bullied and it ended up with HER being removed from the school by her parents because the school did **** all. Now they're at private school... and the bullying is just as bad, and the school just as unwilling to actually DO anything.

Bullying is destroying people's lives and it has been for years, all kinds of people, and schools rarely address the problem. I'd like to see the media focus on the WHOLE problem and not drag it up and act outraged when it's a refugee.

This has nothing to do with him being a refugee its just because the video has gone viral online. It could have been a white person/PoC not a refugee and it would have still garnered the same attention.