re: The losers in high school are making the rules

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There's absolutely, positively no shortage of peer pressure in high school. It's as forceful now as it's always been. It's the cruelty and fear that's been mitigated.

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So you tell me: why is the under 30 (maybe under 40) crowd so fragile? I'm not in HS so I don't pretend to know the daily details but I can see the results.

Now SHE'S a Bawsette, right there.....

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She ain't wrong.

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No she is not wrong.

I bet if you could find a sexual identity study on college professors, lawyers, doctors,.....essentially the credentialed class you would see a higher percentage of LGBTQ.....XYZ#€£¥! than in other professions, particularly when compared to blue collar workers. Guarandamntee it.

She is partially right.

But ultimately there is some level of jocks (armed feds, military, and police) who protect these theater/art nerds and even do their dirty work for them, because their livelihoods and pensions depend on it. They are the real problem.

Kids can be cruel, and the left is both cruel and evil. I think people struggle to find out what drives these power hungry crazies. I had a boss, fat white woman, who no doubt caught shite in high school. She became a division chief and managed the division like a high school popularity event, rather than focusing primarily on our product. Be that as it may, I think the op is pretty much full of sh!t. I think the corruption in our leaders are just a symptom of a fallen world led by a bunch of demons, behind the scenes. Guess I’m just one of them crazies.

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Social/peer pressure actually serves a very valuable purpose. It can be overdone but it can also be underdone, and we've let the pendulum swing too far to the under. I've seen normal disagreements in the workplace now treated as a "hostile work environment" because we've taught generations to be coddled, and that their sense of being offended or "disrespected" is the ultimate barometer for how things should function.

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I don’t disagree what what you said, but “peer pressure” and “normal disagreements” are generally not “bullying,” which, by definition, requires an intent to belittle someone, often for things outside their control. Bullying is needless aggression, and telling oneself that it actually helps the victim is simply a coping mechanism to avoid having to confront the fact that the bully was just being a piece of shite.

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No one is advocating picking on the weak and taking their lunch money for the hell of it.

I went to school with two guys - Nicholas and Brandon. Brandon was your typical jock - everything revolved around sports to him. Nicholas was tall, and was good at basketball, but he spent a lot of time learning to play the guitar and drums, etc. Brandon thought this behavior made Nicholas gay.

Brandon picked on Nicholas all the time. Just gave him hell. One day, Nicholas turned around and punched the shite out of Brandon. Blood everywhere. Brandon didn't pick on Nicholas anymore.

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That's not the sorta thing the gal in the twatter vid is talking about and Nicholas is not the bullying situation that's implied in this thread.

The overarching theme in this thread is that one of the reasons power has been ceded to the Left in this country is due to a lack of bullying in high school, which is just a sad suggestion.

Everyone knows someone who stood up to a bully. It's not a new concept. Folks in this thread aren't talking about that. What they're talking about is getting back to a pervasive social culture of cruelty toward what they believe are weaklings that now sign their paychecks, and pass laws they disagree with.

So instead of teaching Conservative or Right minded kids to win them over in high school, this thread wants to desperately get back to fear and cruelty. This is just further and pathetic evidence that we've lost the culture war in this country.

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You ever heard A Boy Named Sue by Johnny Cash?

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Wouldn’t it have been preferable if no one made fun of his name at all, considering it was completely out of his control? Do you teach your children it’s okay to needlessly make fun of someone for being poor, or having red hair, or having a disability? Do you tell them “I’m proud of you for shiteing on that kid, it will make him stronger in the long run?”

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And the Left continues to prove my assertion that a sense of humor requires a soul.

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Needlessly harassing someone because of something out of their control isn’t having a sense of humor, it’s just being an arsehole.

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So you tell me: why is the under 30 (maybe under 40) crowd so fragile? I'm not in HS so I don't pretend to know the daily details but I can see the results.

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What "under 40" crowd are you hanging out with man? Where are they? Because the under 40 crowd I keep company with are all educated professionals and have their shite together. None of them are fragile.