MetaFilter posts tagged with bullying

Charged

NotMyselfRightNow — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:42:50 -0800

Lori Drew was charged today for her involvement in the MySpace-related suicide of Megan Meier last fall.

It's all Jimmy Carter's fault

ericbop — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:13:02 -0800

School bully arrested for spiking allergic classmate's lunchbox with peanut butter cookie crumbs

"Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?"

orthogonality — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 23:05:29 -0800

Every One That Hates Billy....” It featured a photograph of Billy’s face superimposed over a likeness of Peter Pan, and provided this description of its purpose: “There is no reason anyone should like billy he’s a little bitch. And a homosexual that NO ONE LIKES.”

Billy, busy building a miniature house, didn’t see it coming: the boy hit him so hard in the left cheek that he briefly lost consciousness. [His mother] remembers the family dentist sewing up the inside of Billy’s cheek, and a school official refusing to call the police, saying it looked like Billy got what he deserved.

A car the color of a school bus pulls up with a boy who tells his brother beside him that he’s going to beat up Billy.... While one records the assault with a cellphone camera, the other walks up to the oblivious Billy and punches him hard enough to leave a fist-size welt on his forehead. The video shows Billy staggering, then dropping his book bag to fight back, lanky arms flailing. But the screams of his sister stop things cold. The aggressor heads to school, to show friends the video of his Billy moment, while Billy heads home, again. It’s not yet 8 in the morning. .... Judging by school records, at least one official seems to think Billy contributes to the trouble that swirls around him.

Defense of Bill Cosby

Postroad — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:20:40 -0800

Defense of Bill Cosby [...]My crimes that afternoon were two. I committed the transgression of wearing a tweed jacket, black sweater, black slacks and glasses, a no-no for the “ thug barbers" there because to be an appropriate African American by their standards was to wear saggy pants, sport jerseys and doo-rag caps. My second transgression was to bring a book, James Baldwin’s Notes of A Native Son.

Don't Laugh at the D.O.E.

spock — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:42:05 -0800

The Department of Education is introducing into all of its elementary and middle schools Operation Respect: Dont Laugh at Me, an intensive curriculum in character development . Operation Respect home page and the "centerpiece" song page (Autoplay Music Warning!) Related dontlaugh.org.

Bullying

nickyskye — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 05:20:58 -0800

Who Pagan Bullies Are and What Makes Them Tick "Bullying is a compulsive need to displace aggression and is achieved by the expression of inadequacy (social, personal, interpersonal, behavioural, professional) by projection of that inadequacy onto others through control and subjugation (criticism, exclusion, isolation etc)."

Only Wayne

plep — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 03:52:55 -0800

Only Wayne. A racist bullying case study in wiki format.

Christian Charity?

jack_mo — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 04:00:12 -0800

Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres provide beautiful surroundings in which cancer patients and their families can learn to adjust to living with the disease. You'd think an organisation called Christian Voice would support them, but the group instead chose to bully the charity into turning down the proceeds from a gala performance of Jerry Springer, The Opera (which they believe to be a deeply offensive work), pretending to be helping them avoid a scandal, while threatening them with protests outside their centres around the UK.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another

iffley — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:00:00 -0800

Bully OnLine: 'the world's largest resource on workplace bullying and related issues'.

Includes profiles ("Look, dad, it's a sociopath"). Describes why it's hard to stand up to bullying behaviour, how to do it, and why others won't help you.

There's also kickbully.com [previously discussed here], which offers basic ground-rules for dealing with bullies, and suggestions for dealing with specific situations (including one-liners you might want to try). But watch out, because the bastards are vengeful.

kids these days

donkeyschlong — Sun, 09 Feb 2003 19:38:46 -0800

On top of being a teenager, on top of surviving cancer, on top of losing a leg to that cancer, 13-year-old Lacey Henderson, formerly of East Denver's Hill Middle School, had to suffer death threats and epithets because of her condition. This is just sick.