Bullying Is Sometimes Okay

Bullying Is Sometimes Okay

Since it is a newly-created offense against humanity, ”bullying” is difficult to define although usually interpreted as any persistent physical, verbal, or emotional intimidation committed by a person or group against a target perceived to be weaker and more vulnerable.




Like another politically-correct invention, “hate crime,” bullying only applies to selected victims.



Legally, your boss can bully you all he wants since he’s your boss and parents can bully their kids to their hearts’ content since most often they are disciplining them.



Of course, if you happen to be a minority of any stripe–racial, religious, or sexual–you can always allege unwarranted bullying and sue for damages. So, too, can a designated majority, women, claim unfair intimidation. Usually.



Should you not fit comfortably in any of those protected categories, you’re pretty much SOL.



Tanya Dixon-Neely, a black teacher at North Carolina’s North Rowan High School, discovered there are limits to her freedom to bully her white students.



The limitations became apparent after 17 year old Hunter Rogers went public with a video of Ms. Dixon-Neely’s classroom rant in defense of Barack Hussein Obama and her attempt to stifle Rogers’ opinions on Mitt Romney.



Evidently, ignorant of epithets hurled at George W. Bush for eight years and the truth about Obama, her groundless threats that Rogers could be arrested for speaking ill of the president, (“Do you realize that people were arrested for saying things bad about Bush?”), were absolute lies as was her denial that her hero bullied a little girl in Hawaii who had darker skin than he had.



Dixon-Neely was suspended–with pay–but only her ultra-partisan political bullying hit the fan. See details of her assault on a student’s First Amendment rights here http://bit.ly/K5YwwY.



Certain governmental bullying is acceptable, however.



For example, when America’s Attorney General intimidated University of Arkansas at Fort Smith into permiting a transgendered, 38 year old anatomical male to use female potty facilities, it was just fine.



Objections from the young ladies at UAFS went for naught as did the university’s reasonable alternative of allowing “Jennifer” Braly to use “gender neutral” bathrooms after Braly complained to Eric Holder’s Justice Department.



As Braly said, “I am frustrated and highly depressed about all of these unfair restrictions. I live as a woman full time and have been for a year and a half now. I have natural breast development bigger than some normal girls from the hormone treatment. The only thing restricting me is what’s between my legs. Everyone is so concerned with what’s between my legs. I am just as much woman as anyone else.” (http://thedc.com/MJdJWW)



We certainly wouldn’t want Ms/Mister Braly to feel uncomfortable. Personally, I haven’t seen what’s between Braly’s legs nor do I care to but his reference to “normal girls” says a great deal about his normality.



Our DoJ clearly bullied UAFS and the school’s co-eds all in the name of PC. Hopefully, after those co-eds have a sit down next to “Jennifer” Braly’s legs, they . . .




(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=24595.)

When the Bullied Become the Bulliers

When the Bullied Become the Bulliers

Bullying in schools, a problem as old as schools, has become the most grievous sin that could be committed, worse than cheating on tests, fighting, and engaging in illicit acts, all of which commonly occur.

Teachers seducing students still ranks higher on the serious scale but bullying is now considered the most damnable offense a student can commit, so vile that the bullied are now being allowed the right to bully as reparation.

The anti-bullying campaign in America has been fostered by no less than the president of the United States and his wife who warned of the destructive consequences of bullying and co-hosted a White House Conference on Bullying Prevention last year.

There have been no White House conferences on the subject of the dire state of American education so, obviously, bullying is a far more critical concern.

Obviously, too, the administration is more concerned over a particular type of bullying than about bullying in general, about geeks being stuffed into lockers or jocks intimidating nerds. The tip-off as to the gay focus of Barack Hussein Obama’s campaign was his bizarre appointment of a homosexual activist and facilitator of child sexual predation, Kevin Jennings, as his “safe schools czar.”

(See “Kevin Jennings and ‘Safe Schools,’ ” http://bit.ly/pcAMPH, and “School Gays Are Busting Out All Over,” http://bit.ly/A7QZTB.)

Bullying has now come full circle as the subjects of Obama and Jennings’ safety have developed into the bulliers.

Public school administrators, never known for their courage or intellect–most went into administration because they couldn’t teach–have been quick to endorse and enforce NEA and Obamian dictates on bullying since to do otherwise would threaten their sinecures.

As a result, we have witnessed countless instances of schools enforcing so-called zero tolerance when it comes to assumed intolerance toward gay students and boundless tolerance of a politically-correct tyrrany by the assumed oppressed.

The latest absurdity happened at Shawano High School in Wisconsin. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12177.)

Bullying and Teasing, Kevin Jennings and Teen Suicide

Bullying and Teasing, Kevin Jennings and Teen Suicide

I don’t remember being bullied in school and no one I know was ever “bullied” or was a “bullyer,” in the contemporary senses of those terms. Of course, in the interests of full disclosure, having attended parochial school, bullying wasn’t allowed since nuns generally attended to that duty.

I do recall, occasionally, teasing when I was the teaser without intending the teasing to in any way connote threats or intimidation and some dumb older kids sometimes asserting their age and size by being overbearing. At least one of those dumbasses ended up in prison, another became a teacher.

Our version of “bullying” typically involved vain pre- and post-adolescent efforts to gain attention from inattentive girls many of whom surreptitiously loved the attention but felt compelled to maintain the requisite façade of disinterest.

Both genders survived but times have changed.

Today, bullying is considered by the PC crowd as little short of character assassination or attempted murder–and young people are buying into that absurd hyperbole.

Okay, back in my day when we were circling the wagons and trying to survive Indian onslaughts, we had more things on our minds than Mary Jane and her persnickety uppitiness but, still, if Mary Jane had missed our subtle romantic overtures of hiding her hair ribbons, she wouldn’t have ended it all by leaping out of the stagecoach into some abyss.

As I said, times have changed.

Thanks to a super-charged media obsessed over bullying and its disturbed offshoot, cyber-bullying, the subject is front-page news. Compound that media-created awareness with the availability of Facebook and Twitter and emails, some nasty kids are now able to taunt, harass, and threaten vulnerable kids more or less anonymously and often with impunity.

Add to that supercharged hysteria and unsocial media school administrations that post strict anti-bullying guidelines which are largely unenforceable and, if enforced, are ridiculed, too many young people today now take seriously what was formerly ignored or dismissed as irrational, envious, and jealous ad hominem rants by miscreants.

Regrettably, a relatively minuscule number of teens and even pre-teens are unable to deal with the stress created by those miscreants and resort to the ultimate solution for what is invariably a passing problem.

In actuality, teen suicide rates, with one notable exception, haven’t increased appreciably over the last few decades and are in line with the overall numbers of people who opt for that final answer chosen by tens of thousands of Americans.

However, try to explain those stats to some fifteen year old girl who has been nominated for Slut of the Year by a Facebook adversary intent on snatching her boyfriend or to a fourteen year old boy called a pimply queer for all the world to see on Twitter and it’s a lost cause.

For a certain segment of young people, bullying has been catastrophic.

What is rarely noted concerning teen bullying is the above-referenced exception and that the chief impetus of the phenomenon derives not from any grassroots demand for a remedy but from the government of President Barack Obama.

More specifically but not exclusively, the man responsible for exaggerating the problem is the former Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools at the U.S. Department of Education, Kevin Jennings. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5527.)

School Bullying, Gays, and Asher Brown

School Bullying, Gays, and Asher Brown

School bullying is as indefensible as school cheating, and as common.

Bullying, especially among boys, (girls usually have more devious methods of harassment), is as much a part of the school experience as that cheating. It’s always been and probably always will be.

I can visualize young Greek boys sitting on the grass in the Athenian sun as Socrates attempted to share with them, using the Socratic Method, of course, his views of knowledge and virtue as the rambunctious Plato taunted Demetrius because his tunic was torn.

Asher Brown, a student at Hamilton Middle School outside Houston was probably bullied for most of his childhood but especially during his two years at Hamilton. He was different and differences, departures from the norm, often bring out the nasties in some kids. Things got so nasty for Asher that he went home, grabbed his stepfather’s 9mm baretta and shot himself in the head. He left no suicide note.

As his stepfather explained, “My son put a gun to his head because he couldn’t take what he was hearing and the constant teasing.”

Asher’s grieving parents say Hamilton administrators had looked the other way as their son was “bullied to death.” They say their son had “come out” to them over the summer and that they readily accepted his new status, his self-identification–at the very unripe age of 13–as a homosexual. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=2013)

Blame Phoebe, Blame the Victim!

Blame Phoebe, Blame the Victim!

Leave it to Slate.com, an arch-liberal website, to blame the death of 15 year old Phoebe Prince on 15 year old Phoebe Prince rather than on the predatorial atmosphere in Massachusetts’ South Hadley High School and on her sick, fellow students who drove her to go home last January 14th and hang herself.

Nine students have been indicted on various charges and some could face up to 10 years in prison; the schools superintendent has been pressured to resign.

It’s all too typical for liberals to exonerate the predators in society, whether they be the poor bastard who rapes children or the misunderstood psychopaths who murder innocents or the disenchanted morons who wreak havoc on city streets. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1798)

Sexting Redux: N.Y.C.

Sexting Redux: N.Y.C.

It’s common knowledge among adults that the sexting craze among teenagers has to be the nuttiest departure from normal behavior since the goldfish-swallowing fad began in the 1930’s. Back then, the only harm came to the goldfish. Sexting can lead to irreparable, lifelong harm, even suicide, for teens.

For those still unaware, sexting is an outgrowth of the ubiquitous cell phone and has encouraged teenagers, particularly but not exclusively young girls, to push and exceed the limits of discretion by transmitting revealing pictures of themselves and/or “talk dirty” on their cells, which pictures and talk can then become property of the internet when the recipients post them on websites.

Sexting is undoubtedly a serious social problem that can develop into other problems as critical as texting while driving. Both can result in severe injuries and sexting has already resulted in teen suicides when their nude and semi-nude photos become public.

All that said, the new New York City Department of Education proposed policy on sexting is an absurd exercise in an unenforceable and excessive abuse of power. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1742)