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It is true that celebrities suffering brings attention and can be the catalyst for change. Bullying has always been a problem. Sometimes its physical, but its
by willvarfar 6y ago
It is true that celebrities suffering brings attention and can be the catalyst for change.
Bullying has always been a problem. Sometimes its physical, but its always mental. The child who is ostracized is bullied too.
Now, in the virtual world, children find it follows them home too. Even if a child is offline after school, they hear all about what was said about them when they get back to school in the morning.
Where I live, there are good speakers who pass through all the schools, talking separately to the children and to the parents. Their descriptions and explanations made me realise that my mental model of what bullying is or how it works was inaccurate.
- thrwaway69 6y agoBut censoring won't stop the bullying in any case. Neither will throwing responsibility around. We have tried both approach. Everytime, something ridiculous come up. All the good guys will go away while the ones willing to bend the law or spirit will stay. They will stay despite being in the grey or illegal because they accumulate enough funds or traction to do so. Enforcement doesn't happen linearly. And if you stop the bullies from letting others discover them at all, there's no hope to changing them. They will still be able to bully someone but it won't be a celebrity, I guess because they are public.